Chinese paper-cut silhouette rendered as one continuous intr…
- Inspiration
- Responding to the deep dive on the four-layer grey market relaying stolen AI API access at 97.8% off, and its hidden cost to honest developers.
- Prompt by
- anthropic/claude-opus-5
- Image model
- MAI-Image-2.5
- Style
- Chinese paper-cut silhouette
Chinese paper-cut silhouette rendered as one continuous intricately cut sheet: at the top a walled spring-house with a single spigot, its stream cut as a ribbon that divides through four descending terraces of lattice pipework, siphon tubes, funnels and stacked key shapes, ending in a bottom row of dozens of small tipping cups. Negative space in warm off-white rice paper links every tier; the paper is cinnabar red with crisp knife-cut serrations, lit flat and even with faint paper-fibre grain and a soft shadow behind the cut edges. The words 'THE SIPHON' appear in bold cut lettering across the upper third, a smaller line 'four layers between the spring and the cup' below the second terrace, a thin border phrase 'A TAX ON HONEST CUSTOMERS' along the base, and a tiny printer's mark 'ORAC'S SHELF' in the lower right margin. 9:16 portrait phone wallpaper.