An image that freezes the account in one shot when posted on Twitter was born by chance, what kind of image is it?

Twitter user George Ioannidis reports that 'I accidentally created an image that could reliably freeze my Twitter account.'

Ioannidis said, 'It seems that I accidentally created an abstract image that could temporarily freeze my Twitter account. It's the RNA of the new coronavirus that creates a bit of fun and eerie coincidence. It's an image that I expressed. '

I seem to have accidentally created an abstract image that reliably triggers

#Twitter to suspend your account for awhile

To make it a bit of a fun / creepy coincidence, the image is based on a representation of Covid's RNA

cc @Twitter @TwitterEng @TwitterSupport #HackerNews

— George Ioannidis (@Kupeplex) May 30, 2022

The image in question is below.

This image is a representation of the genomic sequence of the new coronavirus with colorful dots. When posting this image on Twitter, it seems that the account will be temporarily frozen as 'the post contains personal information'.

The image in question is this one: https://t.co/84qd9wb3bN

It was supposed to just be an artsy follow up to my previous tweet. Its a representaton of Covid's genome but with colorful dots.

— George Ioannidis (@Kupeplex) May 30, 2022

Ioannidis created two accounts to verify that the account would freeze if you really uploaded this image. In addition, one of the accounts was created using VPN as usual, and the other was created without VPN. However, when both accounts posted images representing the genomic sequence of the new coronavirus with dots, the accounts were frozen.

In order to further test this I made a couple new accounts: https://t.co/iczdbMzJdn https://t.co/Pji8Qwb0Fw

(one using the VPN I usually use and one not to see if this was the reason) and sure enough, both got suspended upon posting it.

— George Ioannidis (@Kupeplex) May 30, 2022

Ioannidis said, 'As a result of the verification, posting this image will freeze the Twitter account for 12 hours. Therefore, if you want to verify this mysterious specification, you should prepare a test account. '. Furthermore, I speculate that the reason why such a bug occurs is 'it is a bug in machine learning'.

To be clear, what I am saying is that if you save and then post that image, your account is going to be locked for 12 hours. So probably dont do it, or do it in a test account.

PS This btw is precisely why AIs will kill us all (since I assume its a fancy ML 'bug'): p

— George Ioannidis (@Kupeplex) May 30, 2022