I’m guessing the actual prompt was “Generate an image of raw salmon fillets in a river”, and the entire point was to meme the hell out of it. Here’s what you actually get if you do the test in good faith. No levitating, no raw fillets, just salmon in a river.
There are only five sentences of text on that page, with the last one explaining that this sort of marriage was not common at all. Where did you get the idea that the textbook is suggesting that this was the norm?
I’m guessing the actual prompt was “Generate an image of raw salmon fillets in a river”, and the entire point was to meme the hell out of it. Here’s what you actually get if you do the test in good faith. No levitating, no raw fillets, just salmon in a river.