This AI Gives Emojis Real Faces and the Results Are Horrifying

This AI Gives Emojis Real Faces and the Results Are Horrifying

5 years ago
Anonymous $4ckUSNo_FL

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4wz3/this-ai-gives-emojis-real-faces-and-the-results-are-horrifying

Withered eyes on child,Red lips as pepperoni,Ghost with gaping jaw.

This haiku was inspired by Jonathan Fly's horrifying post on his blog “I Forced a Bot.” Fly took a machine learning model—designed to reconstruct human faces using 16 x 16 pixel images of human faces—and used it to reconstruct human faces using 16 x 16 emojis, Twitch emotes, and video game sprites. I don’t like how it looks!