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Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw
- wodenokoto 10y agoi don't see any pictures in the link.
- gabrielgoh 10y agoauthor here, i just realized this site doesn't work on mobile. I used javascript to generate the tables of images. While I blunder through trying to fix this, you can view the pictures here https://gitlab.com/open_nsfw/open_nsfw.gitlab.io/tree/master/nsfw https://gitlab.com/open_nsfw/open_nsfw.gitlab.io/tree/master...
- gabrielgoh 10y agoFixed! If you were on safari before, it should be working now. Just confirmed the fixes are live.
- erlehmann_ 10y agoWhy exactly are you using JavaScript here and not a simple HTML table or list?
- gabrielgoh 10y agoa fair point.
- Houshalter 10y agoI imagine he was trying to save time by writing code that makes the tables, rather than manually making them.
- dsl 10y agoThis is one of the most disturbing things I couldn't stop reading.
- petercooper 10y agoAgreed. These creepy images make me wonder if some neural net-based text generator could optimize against algorithms detecting both readable English and scary/traumatic/intense/whatever prose.. and produce mental imagery darker than any human author has.
- lotyrin 10y agoIt wouldn't maximize fear response in humans, only in the neural net that results from the training set. If we get to where we can simulate human neural nets (and identify the "scary" neurons) then we could perform gradient descent against those. That's an interesting concept. I don't know if that's been visited in SF, but it has potential. Imagine a set of not-so-random squiggles that causes uncontrollable fear to its beholder.
- nitrogen 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) might be of interest to you.
- foota 10y agoOr a lethally funny joke
- Fr0styMatt88 10y ago
- viraptor 10y agoSome of the more abstract images at the beginning really remind me of Beksiński's paintings. (some NSFW, but good, dark art overall) https://art.vniz.net/en/beksinski/ https://art.vniz.net/en/beksinski/ There's just enough of abstract ideas and randomly included genitalia. (now I really wish someone did a Beksiński + photos mixer... there's ~240 samples just on that site)
- MasterScrat 10y agoRemind me of the paintings of H. R. Giger, the designer of the creature in the Alien franchise. Google "giger nsfw" if you want to see his more sexual creations.
- pault 10y agoGiger was the first thing that came to mind for me, too.
- eric_h 10y agoThe NSFW images actually reminded me of Keith Haring's work, given the not-so-subtle phalluses in all the images.
- pault 10y agoHoly shit! It's like Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, HR Giger, and Frank Frazetta had a love child and locked it in a closet. Thanks for the link.
- kgabis 10y agoA movie called Ostatnia Rodzina (Last Family) about Beksiński family was recently released in Poland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfFt9RfO9Bc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfFt9RfO9Bc), definitely one of the best movies I've seen this year. Unfortunately I don't know if it will screen outside Poland and UK.
- user24 10y agoThere's a fair bit of Hieronymus Bosch in there too.
- kapitza 10y agoGeorgia O'Keefe has already contacted her attorneys...
- lvs 10y ago... or rather, her estate has.
- supernintendo 10y agoI was reminded more of Salvador Dali's work, particularly The Great Masturbator.
- gomijacogeo 10y agoThey've figured out how to synthesize OMNI magazine covers.
- Taniwha 10y agoah ... so it doesn't dream of doggies then .....
- niftich 10y agoThis is absolutely fascinating. It's mesmerizing to see this NSFW detection applied in reverse, and it's even more interesting to observe your mind react to the generated images. You can see the sort-of-mons pubis patterns, the maybe-pubic hair, the perhaps-breasts and the suspiciously phallic appendages, complete with realistic colors. Interestingly, all exposed skin suggests that the training dataset for the NSFW detection was skewed towards caucasians, given how the synthesized images are near-completely devoid of skin tones other than light pink. Perhaps this is a good visual indication of unintentional 'bias' in datasets?
- walrus01 10y agoWho wants to volunteer to acquire and organize a several thousand jpg set of "ebony" category porn and submit it? If training material is required, there's undoubtedly a lot of categorized porn for all possible races in the world already, it's just a matter of getting volunteers to do it.
- niftich 10y agoI'm actually really curious whether nudes of dark-skinned people pass the default model at all. Luckily, detector can be seeded to work with a different model, so we can have several of them; but this would be a useful pull-request.
- devonkim 10y agoIt may be more beneficial to train for just body feature recognition instead of skin tone because last I saw, from the neck down women have only so much variance across body shapes. We already have a huge amount of homemade porn by people all across the world, but the dataset is not very well labeled compared to professional mainstream porn and that will impact the research. In other posts I've seen, generative networks produced biases unrelated to what people consider NSFW such as brighter lip color, so I think restricting features related to anything above the neck or below the knees from impacting the CNNs would be helpful.
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- kolokolo 10y agoI'll have 2 tickets to the dick concert thanks.
- nothis 10y agoThose ones were hilarious.
- mgraczyk 10y agoWe're witnessing the beginning of an entirely new form of pornography. I can easily imaging a XYZ Porn website adding an "Artificial" or "Neural Dream" porn section.
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- Houshalter 10y agoReminds me of http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1004 http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1004
- Senji 10y agoWasn't this the sort of thing the plebs were distracted by from the porn division in 1984?
- MasterScrat 10y agoCould this be used to insert a "subliminal" touch to an image? Eg you make an ad that looks innocent, but that would fool your brain into thinking it's sexual if you just scan the page containing it?
- JumpCrisscross 10y agoIs there any evidence such marketing works?
- anonymfus 10y agoAdvertisement is not only marketing, it's also art. Even if ad agencies will fail to convince some porn site or condom producer to use such ad to generate news, they still can create social ad and submit it to advertising festivals.
- jdavis703 10y agoNot to mention the potential to generate free press coverage from "controversy."
- yoodenvranx 10y agoHas anyone ever thought about using all of reddits porn subs for machine learning? There must be 10s (or even 100s) of thousand of images (kind of) neatly organized by gender, boob size, ass size, skin color, age, ...
- komali2 10y agoOr any porn website.
- yoodenvranx 10y agoThe advantage of reddit is that you can also get tons of cats, dogs, cars, landscapes, food, ... all from the same place with the same scraper.
- aab0 10y agoIf you want fine-grained tagging/categorization, you would be even better off with the -boorus.
- flashman 10y agoQuick plug for my map of NSFW Reddit: http://electronsoup.net/nsfw_subreddits/ http://electronsoup.net/nsfw_subreddits/
- throwanem 10y agoUnusable on mobile. In portrait, the sidebar covers everything; in landscape, it still covers half the viewport, and touch panning works but resets the position of the graph to what I assume is center or origin on every drag. Hate to seem harsh, but I felt it worth mentioning, since it's why I'm unable to give any more substantive feedback on the project.
- flashman 10y agoNot at all designed to be compatible with mobile.
- calsy 10y agoH.R Gigerish.
- bcoates 10y agoI'm seeing Roger Dean (of the Yes album covers) or maybe "Heavy Metal". Whatever Piaget stage prog rock is, AI has reached it.
- TheGorramBatman 10y agoShoulda called it "Deep Dicks" or something.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoSome of these images and those from similar projects could be in an art gallery. They are art; provoking original, emotional, responses. Most people hear about self-driving cars, but not about the fact that machines have already begun to emulate human creativity in the most intimate way. For a while, this secret assault on our uniqueness will stay among us.
- yolesaber 10y agoHe built an H.R. Giger [0] generator, essentially. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoI thought the images looked mildly interesting but lack a certain sense of Giger. With a bunch of Giger images plus a bunch of porn as input the output would probably be fairly indistinguishable from Giger originals.
- PaulAJ 10y agoMy immediate thought was that they looked like the work of Salvador Dalí
- qbrass 10y agoSounds like the premise for the strangest Viagra ad ever.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoCalm your horses. Generative nonsense have been already explored in literature in 90s. So for me it does not produce any new feeling. Now for a newer generation playing with a real ding is perhaps a little more intriguing.
- WhitneyLand 10y agoActually, no. Nothing produced in the 90's is the same as what's been done in the last few years. But please cite your best work and we'll have a look. Regarding your dick joke, it's not really relevant. This is not interesting because it is pornographic.
- codingdave 10y agoThey have automated the surrealist movement. Which goes pretty much directly against the philosophy underlying the surrealist movement. Which the actual people involved with it would probably approve of, as they mostly all moved on from it anyway.
- k_sze 10y agoI wonder if it would make it hard to find this project via Yahoo's search engine. That would be sweetly ironic.
- shahar2k 10y agoI would LOVE to see what happens if you feed it clearly NSFW images as the source, and let the network optimize for SFW instead
- ant6n 10y agoIt may look surprisingly similar: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/five/why-do-neural-networks-think-a-panda-is-a-vulture https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/five/why-do-neural-netw...
- h4nkoslo 10y agoVery HR Giger esque. Somehow more horrifying than the original.
- noam87 10y agoI am always blown away by how eerily similar these generated NN images are to the visuals experienced under psychedelic drugs. Moreso than any artist's depiction (and there have been plenty of those)... they just have the same "feel". Which of course leads one to the inescapable idea that there is a fundamental relationship here.
- Scaevolus 10y agoMaybe dreams and hallucinations involve your brain running recognition networks in reverse to generate stimuli?
- Geee 10y agoI've hypothesised something like this. Or rather dreams could be generative based on random input (or random 'memory key frames') rather than real input. This assumes that mostly what we 'see' when awake is actually generated by the brain based on incomplete and noisy sampling of the real world.
- wh-uws 10y agoThis is basically the exact hypothesis of a TED talk I saw by cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY fascinating stuff
- adrianratnapala 10y agoI think that's pretty much the standard theory nowadays. If I understand my pop-science correctly, our subjective visual field is actually made of images synthesised from objects we have recognised. When we are awake, this mostly matches the real world because we select those objects to match data coming from the eyes. But when we dream or hallucinate, the synthesis circuits fire based on other inputs -- such as noise.
- lelandbatey 10y agoIndeed, and let's not forget the extended example of the video of random noise fed into Google's Deep Dream system: https://youtu.be/SCE-QeDfXtA https://youtu.be/SCE-QeDfXtA
- eveningcoffee 10y agoIs there are a good validation set of subtle examples of something being NSFW and SFW? Especially considering that the subject is mostly defined as I do not know to how to define it but I definitely know it when I see it.
- boxcardavin 10y agoFascinating, I'm curious to see if any of the tech press or even mainstream press pick up on this. If they do, will they pixelate the sample images??
- dluan 10y agoOK - does anyone know, how close are we to these trained neural nets passing the turing test for human creativity? Because I feel like we're going to pass it in my lifetime.
- throwanem 10y agoHang prints in a gallery and let's find out.
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- sgnelson 10y agoTalk about "...You'll know it when you see it..."
- whitehat2k9 10y ago"Not surprisingly, the results of the optimization are clearly pornographic." Just about spit out my food.
- gabrielgoh 10y agoBy popular demand, I've added more pictures! https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io/more.html https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io/more.html
- dekhna 10y agoAt first i thought WTF am I looking at? But actually they are quite beautiful in an abstract sort of way.
- anentropic 10y agocan the process generate hi-res images?
- tripzilch 10y agoSeconded! I'd love to have some in really high res (I dunno what for, but I'd love to take a closer look). However, even medium res would be really cool, IMO the generated pictures just a tad too low resolution to appreciate carefully. Is it a compute/processing power thing? Does it take a lot more time to generate an image at say 5x resolution? Also what I wondered about, quite a few of the images seem to have a sort of "canvas" like texture on them. Any idea why that is? Would a lot of the source images have canvas textures? Is it an artifact of the algorithm? It kinda feels like a highpass (edge enhance) filter as well. Or maybe they're just JPG artifacts?
- gabrielgoh 10y agothe artifacts are explained in detail here http://distill.pub/2016/deconv-checkerboard/ http://distill.pub/2016/deconv-checkerboard/ more compute will enable higher resolutions and less artifacts, but it means training a bigger GAN
- lizzard 10y agoIt seems possible to put other, not-porn images of people into the hopper and spit out an endless stream of perturbing, semi-pornographic trolling. That will probably happen, despite it being an awful idea, and it could even become commodified.
- jlebrech 10y agoso this could be used for an automatic nudity free chatroulette
- egypturnash 10y agoIt's... it's a robot Dali Giger. I love living in the future.
- _wp_ 10y agoThe repository is here: https://gitlab.com/open_nsfw/open_nsfw.gitlab.io/tree/master https://gitlab.com/open_nsfw/open_nsfw.gitlab.io/tree/master
- pearjuice 10y agoSo that's what they are doing at Yahoo these days.
- sdfjkl 10y agoSometimes the amount of time and effort we waste on enforcing outdated morals on other people astonishes me. Still, we get abstract genitals as a side effect.
- ris 10y agoSo what about optimizing NSFW originals to make them appear "SFW"? What would such a thing look like? Presumably the skin tones would be the first to go.
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- tjwei 10y agohttps://github.com/tjwei/play_nsfw https://github.com/tjwei/play_nsfw I have some experiments along this line.
- pweissbrod 10y agoSeems to have bugs. I dont understand whats NSFW about Ted Nugent at a rock concert
- phjesusthatguy3 10y agoThe output looks like something Harry would have run across going through the apartments in Silent Hill 2.
- spot 10y agosimilar results using a smaller set of inputs, 20 years ago: http://draves.org/fuse/ http://draves.org/fuse/
- triplesec 10y agoPerhaps predictably, Facebook is censoring the URL by refusing to let you post it.
- posterboy 10y agoIf the author is reading this, per se means by itself, on its own. I'm not reading per say in its stead for the first time today. It shouldn't be surprising that many misheard words survived in a time when there was no widespread frequent exchange of written language and no writing standards or before that, when hardly anyone could even read. I feel this severely complicated our languages. This is slightly on topic as well, because Natural Language processing has to deal with that now. going one step further with the nitpicking, just because I am at it, the per-say (or indeed, per se) is only a filler in that sentence, like really or very often are, really though.