Nightmare Machine – Horror imagery generated by deep learning

The initial &quot;deep dreaming&quot; images were far scarier. Nothing compares to animal faces literally popping out of the woodwork, as if on LSD.<p>Automated generation of synthetic, photorealistic human faces was mildly terrifying as well.<p>Still, this is a cute Halloween project.

A few days back I see (yet another) article about Stephen Hawking&#x27;s concerns for humanity and AI&#x27;s potential for harm. Today I see we&#x27;re teaching AI how to scare us.<p>Super :)

I know it can be computationally expensive, but larger images would really help in this case.

Deep torture, anyone? Gradient descent on stimuli to get what you want out of adversaries. Kind of scary

On behalf of Saito Game Team, I most humbly apologize.

Anyone else think that the haunted faces bear an uncanny resemblance to the portraits of Francis Bacon? Which, unsurprisingly, are quite nightmarish in many respects:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=francis+bacon+portraits" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=francis+bacon+portraits</a>

It 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).

This 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.

For me, the grid of faces is much scarier than each on individually...interesting.

You might want to check out the site of Chet Zar for more scary faces (artwork): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chetzar.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.chetzar.com</a>

I wonder where the bulk of their training images are from? The website doesn&#x27;t seem to indicate it. These remind me of the parallel universe in &quot;Stranger Things.&quot;

This is disturbing :) Elon is right, AI is evil!

I wonder what artchitecture was used, inception, RNN or a GAN?

It is perhaps ironic that I find the fright-night theme beautiful and soothing. Would love capturing them for real on camera.

we may end up generating our own cthulhu

Why? Is there any remote need to generate scary faces? Or is it done just to have catchy PR title. I hope there is some <i>real</i> motivation to do this line of research.