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I tried it:

This AI is bad at drawing but will try anyways.

There was a paper recently where a research team trained a machine learning algorithm (a GAN they called AttnGAN) to generate pictures based on written descriptions. It’s like Visual Chatbot in reverse. When it was just trained to generate pictures of birds, it did pretty well, actually. 

(Although the description didn’t specify a beak and so it just… left it out.)

But when they trained the same algorithm on a huge and highly varied dataset, it had a lot more trouble generating a picture to go with that caption. Below, I give the same caption to a version of their algorithm that has been trained to generate everything from sheep to shopping centers. Cris Valenzuela wrapped their trained model in an entertaining demo that attempts to generate a picture for any caption.

This bird is less, um, recognizable. When the GAN has to draw *anything* I ask for, there’s just too much to keep track of - the problem’s too broad, and the algorithm spreads itself too thin. It doesn’t just have trouble with birds. A GAN that’s been trained just on celebrity faces will tend to produce photorealistic portraits. But this one, however…

In fact, it does a horrifying job with humans because it can never quite seem to get the number of orifices correct.

It’s fun to ask it to draw animals though. It knows the texture of giraffes, but not quite exactly their shape. And it knows that boats are on the water, but not necessarily that they are boats.

It also (like many other image recognition algorithms) gets a bit confused about the difference between sheep and the landscapes they’re found on. Other algorithms recognize sheep in pictures of empty green fields. And this one, when asked to draw sheep…

That’s different, though, from asking it to draw *a* sheep. In that case, it knows exactly what to do. It draws the sheep, and then just to be safe it fills the entire planet with wool too.

It really likes drawing stop signs and clocks. Give it the slightest opportunity to draw one, and it will chuck those things all over the place.

Other than its horrifying humans, this algorithm can actually be pretty delightful. 

Try it for yourself!

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too much blood

I made the sound for this as well, but it's not up anywhere else so you'll have to go have a look to hear it.

Day 4 of my stop motion advent calendar. See the full story (with sound by Sloppy Demon) here.

@staff, if you want to stop hosting videos on tumblr altogether why don’t you just tell us? Why these passive-agressive tacticts?

I’m sorry, I’m still bitter at Tumblr @staff. Like. 

I posted a video of my dog playing fetch.  And it got yanked for being sexually explicit.  

Now, I accept the “mistakes do happen” thing.  I do.  Like.  I understand that fully.  

But, I posted this video and less than 1 second later I got an email saying that I was in violation of posting a sexually explicit video because it showed me throwing a ball to my puppy and watching my lab come out of nowhere to steal it mid air and run off with it. 

PLEASE EXPLAIN, Tumblr, how I can be followed by 1-4 porn blogs every single day and need to block these blogs every single day, and yet I’m getting a cease and desist for a video of my dog playing fetch? 

Please explain how these porn blogs are allowed to exist and harass users endlessly, flooding their inbox with their bot motivated bull shit non-stop. 

Please explain why I see these blogs talking about underage sex and any manner of things that is wholly inappropriate in the first place, and this is a multi-day occurrence. 

Please let me know why I have to manage porn blogs using my url to boost their stats, and they aren’t getting yanked for pornographic videos or images, but I have to go in EVERY SINGLE TIME one of them follows me, subjecting myself to seeing at the very least a few images of their content as I try to verify if they’re even a real person who might want to follow me ore not, in order to block them. 

But you decide to yank a puppy video? 

Within one second of it being posted? 

Are you insane? 

And if you really want to see the most graphic thing in that video? 

It was this:

There are thousands of underage kids on this site.  Your porn blogs are following them too.  Harassing them too. I’m over age.  You’re the ones allowing these blogs to go after underage kids, using underage terminology, and pestering people via ask and anon questions. 

Get rid of your porn bots.  Stop letting these blogs follow people for hit counts, and stop yanking videos indiscriminately.

Act like a functioning website. 

Please.  

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Is 3ds max going to glitch my wave map? Yes. (For a school assignment to copy a photograph using 3ds max and v-ray. I chose to copy this photo.)

“Yeah, nice costumes!” But they never replied, just stared at me.

So when they passed me by later I said nothing, just took another photo while pretending to take a selfie.