When Google dropped that first batch of Deep dream images, those were compelling. The images bore an uncanny resemblance to things you see while hallucinating o

When Google dropped that first batch of Deep dream images, those were compelling. The images bore an uncanny resemblance to things you see while hallucinating on psychedelics, and the images make you wonder about just how similar the processes going on inside a CNN to processes going on in our own minds. Those deep dream images were new, they invoked a strange sense of frisson, you had to bear witness to whatever it was. But the images shown in this article just look like somebody was fucking around with random filters in photoshop. It's not interesting. It doesn't leave a lasting impression, and that's really the only metric that is universally cross-comparable when judging art.