MIT Nightmare Machine uses deep learning AI to create horror

MIT Nightmare Machine uses deep learning AI to create horror

Google used algorithms to create trippy, dreamy images, and now MIT has done something similar…only with a horror slant to keep in theme with Halloween. Called the Nightmare Machine, this deep learning algorithm takes an image and rewrites it to look as if it were plucked from a horror movie. The resulting images are dark, creepy, and in some cases somewhat gory looking and certainly disturbing. You can jump straight to the images via the Nightmare Machine’s Instagram page here. The Nightmare Machine is a deep learning artificial intelligence created by MIT’s Pinar Yanardag, Iyad Rahwan, and Manual Cebrian. With it, an ordinary photograph — it can be something as innocent as a screenshot from Disney’s Bambi — is analyzed and altered in such a way that it looks ‘haunted’…


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