An art gallery in Berlin has unveiled a peculiar new creation: an AI-generated portrait dubbed ‘The Next Mona Lisa’, made entirely from emojis. Up close, it appears as a chaotic jumble of digital symbols, but from afar, a haunting, Renaissance-style face emerges. The AI was trained on thousands of classical artworks but allowed to use only Unicode emojis.

While critics are divided, some praising it as postmodern brilliance, others condemning it as the decline of real art, the piece has already fetched over $300,000 in cryptocurrency at a digital auction.