If you've ever used an AI graphics program, you've probably encountered this problem: you write a great prompt involving some human figure, and the program delivers. Everything looks great ... except for the hands. They're a mess. Too many fingers. Not enough fingers. Creepy looking fingers with weird misshapen fingernails. Or they don't looks like hands at all. What's going on? 

In this episode, Deep Divers Mark and Jenna finally answer that question. Turns out the "hand problem" isn't just an annoying glitch. It's a symptom of a much bigger issue — the same issue that causes AI to create "false facts", also called "AI hallucinations."   

Our Deep Divers explain these strange quirks using the ideas in a new paper by psychotherapist and author Tom Whitehead, "Ecological Alignment: Preventing Parasitic Emergence in Complex Generative Systems", released in February 2026. To access/download the original paper, visit:

https://whiteheadbooks.com/