And you know what else it can do? Ruin my childhood, and possibly my subconscious. This was the realization I came to this morning when this was shared in our team Slack channel:
— Daniel Hanley ? (@calamardh) July 9, 2019 At first glance, it seems like just the text is scrambled. But look closer at the images: Absolutely chilling. We’re deep in the uncanny valley and I want out.
It’s trippiest if you consider that Garfield himself remains untouched in most of the frames, making it seem like he’s some sort of demon orchestrator cat, warping and twisting the world around him into a psychedelic nightmarish mess. The tweet was sent by Daniel Hanley, who trained the model himself using an AI called StyleGAN, an alternative generator architecture for GAN (or generative adversarial networks, which you can read more about here):
— Daniel Hanley ? (@calamardh) July 9, 2019 Had enough? I’ll leave you with this:
