Hey /x/ you can help MIT create an AI they're calling the Nightmare Machine.
>A series of algorithms dubbed the Nightmare Machine is an effort to find the root of horror by generating ghoulish faces, and then relying on user feedback to see which approach makes the freakiest images. MIT also used Google’s DeepDream method to create ghastly portraits of famous locations around the world, just in time for Halloween.
http://nightmare.mit.edu/faces
>>18268164
Bump
>>18268164
my "wall"
jesus christ.
round 2
>>18268204
Fucking hell, the smiley ones get me really hard.
someone has a new avatar!
:3 :3 :3
fucking skinwalkers man
I wonder if the results get affected at all if I keep "voting" before settling on an image. Does it keep getting spookier and spookier?
>>18268194
I got that same one!
>>18268164
hmmmmm
>>18268267
This is the image for clicking 'not scary' every time. I'll post the one for voting them all scary next. First one should be significantly worse if it affects anything.
Here's all scary. Doesn't seem significantly worse either way to me.
>>18268164
Lame the code isn't released. At least you can get the code for deepdream and other AI stuff. MIT is a bunch corporate bastards.
>>18268164
Why would MIT make an effort to find something that everyone already knows?
It contains two faces that I marked as not scary. What a ripoff.
>>18268204
Fucking awesome!
>>18268194
I got the same results.
>>18269700
Ain't.
>>18268164
So basically if you look like a retard, you're spoopy. This experiment is prejudiced af, dude. Not right. I can sort glass, btw.
Big dark lump on the left side
>>18270579
Bottom row, second to the left. Holy fuck that's some serious nightmare fuel.
This is pretty cool, m8
>>18268206
gross dude
>>18270579
That's racist
Here's what I got
Reminds me of the old eyes of chaos photos
This thing sucks. Most of the pictures either look like someone slapped a bunch of lunch meat on their face, or like someone used the blur tool on a shitty webcam selfie. Nightmare machine my ass.
>>18268224
top left is michael jordon is spacejam
wow i love this. i wonder just how far away the faces are from the training data, or input (how original is the output?) this shit is interesting though
>>18268164
Looks like something from Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Great Job!
>>18273322
what a dumb thing to say. probably the dumbest thing ive read all day
This image reminds me of something t i dont know what.
>>18273445
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPTZWhz46M
>>18269700
>maximum bork
>>18268164
This is the first scary thing I've seen in a while
Man of science here:
So the question is, where does horror come from? After looking at several of these images I can see a pattern. Most of the faces look like those of corpses (which makes sense, fearing the unknown, and disease and whatnot from our ancient history) and some of them include mixtures of animal features or prominent human features. I think these tie in with out reptialian brain to fear wild animals and our nearest human cousin from before our cave days when we co-existed. I am of course referring to the large broad noses, small beady eyes, brow, and animal features on these images.
Looks more gore than spooky to me
fuck gore
I had to do it a bunch of times, I think this one is actually pretty good.
>>18273445
Reminds me of this horribly deformed guy people posted on here before. I don't remember if we ever found out what was up with him, I remember some thinking it was a type of severe burn scarring. He looked like a mole, had no nose, and his skin was kind of very puffy and pink and red.
After doing it a few more times, it said I completed all the faces and then gave me a page of the top picked scary faces, and they're some of the least spoopy ones. I'm so confused by other people.
>>18273445
desu this reminds me a lot of the mask the wolf princess wore
They should try harder at emulating Giger. Give them all vagina mouths.
These look like they were made with generative adversarial networks!
On the off chance anyones interested: The AI learns to generate faces through a game between 2 neural networks, the generator and the discriminator.
The generator tries to map a vector of random numbers to an rgb image, and the discriminator tries to tell if an image is a real scary face or a fake one from the generator.
The generator learns by changing the strengths of connections between neurons such that the images look more realistic to the discriminator, which learns by changing its connections to be a more accurate judge.
>>18269204
The results are probably made by sampling points in the latent space of the generator that are closest to pictures you labeled as scary, so labeling all scary or not scary pretty much just gives you a completely random subset, so yeah it won't look different.
>>18273275
probably not hugely original/different, though it won't(can't) just outright copy images in it's training set
>>18270691
looks like hillary clinton doctored
>>18269700
Not scary•
>>18274405
Came here to basically say this.
It most be something to do with a built in fear of desease and decay, because the scary ones look like car crash vixtims or victims of drowning.
There is something about seeing the face with exposed teeth as well.
>>18269700
First reaction is to shove my hand down that things throat and choke it to death inside out.
>>18274669
Are you referring to the neanderthals who our ancestors were forced to literally rape to death in order to end the savage killings of homo sapiens?
White skin, beady eyes, wide chest? Genetic horror, if you will.