Pareidolia of AI

The Beauty of Failing by the Artificial Intelligence

Uploaded photo of Cup of Coffee and various interpretations of it by StyleGAN2 (Artbreeder). Screenshot: Merzmensch

Survival Instinct as a pre-trained dataset.

It’s here to protect us. To make us cautious. Pareidolia. A well-known phenomenon, when we see faces where aren’t any. We see faces on Mars, we see Jesus in the toast, we see it everywhere. Well, it does our brain, which is trained on biometrical…