Once I found what people were doing with DeepDream and porn images online, I immediately had to see as much as I possibly could. Salvador Dali would be crazed with delight to have this tool to play with; maybe he’d feel like there was a place for him in our new technologies. These images are the result of feeding an image (in this post, porn photos) into an artificial neural network, thanks to Google.
Google researchers discovered, “neural networks that were trained to discriminate between different kinds of images have quite a bit of the information needed to generate images too.” Google released DeepDream on June 17, in this post on its research blog. VICE describes DeepDream thusly,
Google’s DeepDream program takes images fed into the company’s image recognition system and turns them into the most extreme version of that image imaginable. The network snags tiny portions of an image and runs it through its recognition system, exaggerating small features within it. As we explained last month:
“This basically generated a feedback loop, which exaggerated or read more meaning into simple features. For example, the researchers explained that: ‘If a cloud looks a little bit like a bird, the network will make it look more like a bird. This in turn will make the network recognize the bird even more strongly on the next pass and so forth, until a highly detailed bird appears, seemingly out of nowhere.'”
This large-scale .gif is just insane. Find a more at Deepdream Porn and r/deepdream.
