Erotic Horror inspiration

The first few were creepy, but I got used to it after I understood the patterns. Randomness makes the cut for me. As long as I don't see a pattern, you've got me on edge.

Yeah, I know what you mean - I think it'd work better with a wider range of training data, so it wasn't relying as heavily on dogs.

The many-eyed ones are always creepy (lots of non-porn ones of those). Percy Shelley's supposed to have had a nightmare about a woman with eyes in her breasts, which I pilfered for my Halloween entry last year; he would've loved these.
 
Yeah, I know what you mean - I think it'd work better with a wider range of training data, so it wasn't relying as heavily on dogs.

The many-eyed ones are always creepy (lots of non-porn ones of those). Percy Shelley's supposed to have had a nightmare about a woman with eyes in her breasts, which I pilfered for my Halloween entry last year; he would've loved these.
*ahem*

Story Link?
 
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Ew.

Honestly the images at the link kinda just look like porn with a filter applied?

That's kind of what they are, for very advanced values of "filter". Deep Dream is a neural-net system trained to recognise images by looking for familiar patterns; you feed in a ton of photos labelled by content ("flower", "dog", etc etc) and it learns how to recognise those patterns. Then you feed it an unlabelled photo and it tries to identify the content by matching to the patterns it's familiar with.

Somebody figured out a way to show what sort of patterns it's "seeing" when it looks at a new picture, and this is the result.

For example, here's an after-and-before comparison. If you look at the two pictures just above the guy's fingers, you can get a sense for what it's doing - there's a shape there that looks a little bit like a dog's face, if you're an AI that's been training hard to play "find the dog", so Deep Dream matches that up with one of the dog images it's been trained on.
 
Just think, before the net people had to do acid to see this stuff...

Yep. Be interesting to know if the resemblance is just coincidence, or if what's happening there is some sort of parallel to what LSD does for the human brain.
 
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