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Nightmare Machine – Horror imagery generated by deep learning
- leonroy 10y agoA few days back I see (yet another) article about Stephen Hawking's concerns for humanity and AI's potential for harm. Today I see we're teaching AI how to scare us. Super :)
- lucidrains 10y agowe may end up generating our own cthulhu
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- lqdc13 10y agoI know it can be computationally expensive, but larger images would really help in this case.
- nightmare_mit 10y agoHi there! We actually have higher-quality versions of these images but didn't want to overwhelm the main page (and users' bandwidth). But we can put the larger images to the sub-pages, thanks for the suggestion!
- lqdc13 10y agoThanks for the response. What about putting up higher res versions when you click on the "thumbnails"? Like here: http://nightmare.mit.edu/#portfolioModal30 http://nightmare.mit.edu/#portfolioModal30 (can't link directly to the modal) The computed stylized can be in higher res and only query the server once the user clicks on the thumbnail. maybe even the original in higher res. I mean 1920x1080+ and maybe some options to downsample to specific res. Another suggestion is to figure out a way to maximize artifacts. My scariest experiences with deep learning have been with unnatural mutations of natural objects. Something like https://zo7.github.io/img/2016-09-25-generating-faces/random-2.jpg https://zo7.github.io/img/2016-09-25-generating-faces/random... Or some results from this: https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code I'm sure one can take it further.
- tschellenbach 10y agoThis is disturbing :) Elon is right, AI is evil!
- rl3 10y agoThe initial "deep dreaming" images were far scarier. Nothing compares to animal faces literally popping out of the woodwork, as if on LSD. Automated generation of synthetic, photorealistic human faces was mildly terrifying as well. Still, this is a cute Halloween project.
- Houshalter 10y agoIn my opinion, some of the images I've seen NNs produce without trying to be scary, were scarier than this. There is something really unsettling about things that look almost real, but aren't quite right. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torch/torch.github.io/master/blog/_posts/images/samples_during_training.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torch/torch.github.io/mast...
- Sharlin 10y agoYeah, those are straight up uncanny valley stuff.
- duaneb 10y agoI find them rather comforting, oddly enough. It's the humanity that terrifies me.
- pmyjavec 10y agoAgreed with others, they look like they're supposed to be scary, but something is missing?
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- r00fus 10y agoIt would be a lot more terrifying if it somehow tried to merge the photos skulls and other traditional horror imagery (the taj mahal photo refection could easily be a skull).
- nightmare_mit 10y agoGreat idea! We actually tried the skull style on some pictures before (https://www.instagram.com/p/BLcU-MzBoEe/?taken-by=nightmare_machine https://www.instagram.com/p/BLcU-MzBoEe/?taken-by=nightmare_...) and they seem okay. We will try it on buildings and see how it turns out!
- zakki 10y agoMy I have a request? My friend, after seeing the images, she asked if it is possible to make Borobudur becomes a scary place. Here is the link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur Thanks
- seandougall 10y agoCheck out deepdreamgenerator.com -- requires a free account, and there are some usage limits, but it's a lot of fun to play with, and can do similar NN-based styling of images.
- nabla9 10y agoOn behalf of Saito Game Team, I most humbly apologize.
- confluence 10y agoFor anyone who doesn't get this, watch Black Mirror.
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- confluence 10y agoThe more time goes on, the more confident I become in the notion that I am currently living in an episode of Black Mirror.
- benbreen 10y agoAnyone else think that the haunted faces bear an uncanny resemblance to the portraits of Francis Bacon? Which, unsurprisingly, are quite nightmarish in many respects: https://www.google.com/search?q=francis+bacon+portraits https://www.google.com/search?q=francis+bacon+portraits
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- zk00006 10y agoWhy? Is there any remote need to generate scary faces? Or is it done just to have catchy PR title. I hope there is some real motivation to do this line of research.
- TuringNYC 10y agoI wonder where the bulk of their training images are from? The website doesn't seem to indicate it. These remind me of the parallel universe in "Stranger Things."
- dia80 10y agoDeep torture, anyone? Gradient descent on stimuli to get what you want out of adversaries. Kind of scary
- max_ 10y agoI wonder what artchitecture was used, inception, RNN or a GAN?
- ddrum001 10y agoFor me, the grid of faces is much scarier than each on individually...interesting.
- srean 10y agoIt is perhaps ironic that I find the fright-night theme beautiful and soothing. Would love capturing them for real on camera.
- edem 10y agoThis reminds me of an episode in the new season of Black Mirror when they connect a guy to a device which data mines his memories and conjures up horrors to entertain the guy...SPOILER ALERT!!...and he dies 0.04s after the connection.
- edem 10y agoYou might want to check out the site of Chet Zar for more scary faces (artwork): http://www.chetzar.com http://www.chetzar.com