"A Nightmare Machine" that AI automatically generates trick-or-treating horror images making full use of deep learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) that automatically generates horror images using deep learning algorithm that started from a simple question "Can AI scare humans?" Is "Nightmare Machine"is. What I developed was students and associate professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and I succeeded in generating photographs that seemed to have been possessed by grotesque ghosts more than I imagined.

Nightmare Machine
http://nightmare.mit.edu/


On the top page of Nightmare Machine, a warning message "It contains horrible content" is displayed.


Two images automatically generated by Nightmare Machine are "Haunted Faces" and "Haunted Places".

Step 1 of "Haunted Faces" is this. State-of-the-art deep learningalgorithmIt is an image created making full use of.


The following image plus the element of "scared" in the image created in Step 1. Indeed, changes are added to individual images subtly.


Step 3 which added further changes seems to be a complete form.


Judging whether "Haunted Faces" created by Nightmare Machine is scary or not is said to be useful for improving the accuracy of the algorithm on the following page.

Nightmare Machine: Help us create the most scary


Subsequently, using the same algorithm, we learned about places with a terrible atmosphere such as "ghostly places" and processed the famous real existing realm as the theme style below.

◆ Haunted house style
Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany


Colosseum in Rome, Italy


St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, Russia


◆ horror film style
Statue of Liberty in America


Eiffel Tower in Paris, France


Tokyo Tower in Japan


Mass killing on the spot
Taj Mahal in India


Casa Mila in Barcelona, ​​Spain


Colosseum in Rome, Italy


◆ Streets inspired by poison
Kilimanjaro of Tanzania


Taj Mahal in India


Capitol · Hill of the United States


◆ Ghost town style
Sydney Opera House in Australia


Stonehenge in the UK


Palmyra of Syria


◆ Hell wind
Palace in Madrid, Spain


Tower Bridge in London


Louvre museum in Paris


Monster with tentacle image
California's Golden Gate Bridge


Leaning tower of Pisa, Italy


Colosseum in Rome


Alien invasion image
New York


Colosseum in Rome


Palmyra of Syria