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A very interesting and related thing are images generated using the Yahoo NSFW classification neural network. It's fairly NSFW: https://open_nsfw.gitlab.io htt

• tnolet 8y ago
  That’s absolutely amazing. Reminds me of Francis Bacon (the painter) and his flesh / gore themed works.
• misnome 8y ago
  This is brilliant, especially the cross-categorised images. I had thought these were talking about 'pornography', but this makes it clear that a very large amount of its training set must consist of dick pics.
  • cube2222 8y ago
    Not necessarily, the NN may just concentrate on them in the porn it's trained on, because it's a common factor that's in porn, but not in beach pics for example. (whereas in both you have almost naked people).
  • frereubu 8y ago
    I'm not so sure about that - I see a lot of labia here.
    • __blockcipher__ 8y ago
      Agreed. It's fascinating, really. To me it seems that the algorithm is generating both male/female genitalia, but it's sort of "choosing" based on what "looks best". That is to say, certain features that in their SFW form already look vaguely like a penis seem to be depicted as a penis (the statues, volcano, etc), whereas other features like the beaches were depicted as vulvas. And the slight red tinge present in some of the canyon/beach images also elicited the vulva, even if the shape of the surface wasn't something "obvious". Man, ironically this stuff to me is true abstract art. To use a somewhat trite cliche, the [extremely subtle] erotic nature of these environments that are clearly not actually genitalia gives insight into how the human mind works just as well as it does into (convolutional?) neural networks themselves