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Testing Twelve AI Image Models with Marcel Proust's Madeleine (Or: How We Chose Hunyuan for Hexagram 24)

November 18, 2025

Upgrading 8-Bit Oracle's Hexagram 24: Return with Proust's famous involuntary memory scene, then systematically testing 12 diverse AI image models through fal.ai to find which one actually captures that precise moment when past and present collapse together.

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