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MIT scientists are training AI to scare people

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Just in time for Halloween and the presidential election, MIT scientists have created an AI that makes images spooky. Think of it like filter app Prisma, but with a more sinister spin.

A three-person team created an algorithm called Nightmare Machine that generates Halloween-inspired images from pictures of faces and places. It’s not the first creepy AI — Google’s Deep Dream has been creating nightmares since June — but some early results are promising. 
via The Verge

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