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You can’t spend more than 15 minutes online without stumbling upon an AI-generated image at least once. The President of the United States regularly posts AI images of himself. AI images are flooding Instagram feeds. Media outlets prepare voters to spot AI images ahead of the primary elections. And at least one AI image gained copyright protections in 2025.

AI-generated images may have become unavoidable in today’s life, but they have come a long way. In 2016, early attempts at generating images from text prompts resulted in low-res blobs that were impossible to discern.

But even those blobs were far from the first AI-generated images. In fact, the history of the first AI image can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s. Let’s dive into it together with the team behind MathGPT AI, an AI-powered homework helper.