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Visual Jabberwocky? (Possibly made by a GAN?) Here is Alice on Jabberwocky ... “It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! … Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas–only I don’t exactly know what they are!”

Perfect analogy. This image is a visual nonsense poem... or would be if it were more poetic. It's fascinating to me. Both feel like they take my brain to the threshold of understanding and then it just gets stuck.

I disagree that it's a 'perfect analogy'. Jabberwocky is a poem created by a human that, while it contains made-up nonsense words, still makes sense. (The hero seeks out a fearsome monster, fights it, is victorious and is lauded for his victory on his return). The poem is aesthetically pleasing and intentionally playful in containing an element of nonsense but not too much.

This picture, on the other hand, is nothing like a 'visual nonsense poem' for me. It's artificially generated and not aesthetically pleasing. It's mildly disconcerting and beyond that, uninteresting.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, now I know what's going on if the real world starts looking like that. And I bet it will sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

After a little therapy, it will sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

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Re: Name one thing in this photo

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post #41

I'm only reading about people getting really uncomfortable looking at this (on reddit). To me it did nothing, although I also couldn't recognise any of the items in the picture. Does anyone else have the same experience?

i felt nothing until i read the comments saying it was unsettling, THEN i got a bit unsettled viewing it. i must be easily led!

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What scares me about the responses is that this appears to be the first GAN-output that many people have seen. This does not bode well for people being able to recognize this sort of thing, should that become important (spotting 'this person does not exist' profile pictures for bots, etc.)

Do you believe this kind of thing should be/is detectable if you're looking for it hard enough? This is pretty realistic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA&feature=youtu.be

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post #15

Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t... From the thread's title: > This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything

I've experienced this, not as a result of having a stroke, but as a result of severe dehydration and depleted potassium making parts of my brain shut down, or at least malfunction horribly. It is terrifying , and even looking at this picture makes me begin to feel the panic I felt during that episode. I could not identify anything, or figure out the connection between what I was touching and what I was seeing. Bath t…

I've had this experience before enough times that it's no longer frightening but means I urgently need some Gatorade or I may start shaking and pouring sweat.

For me it's more like a moving shade that makes it impossible to see what's behind it rather than not being able to recognize it. Do you have some detail on what you think it's the brain shutting down rather than an effect on the eyes themselves?

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post #15

Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t... From the thread's title: > This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything

I've experienced this, not as a result of having a stroke, but as a result of severe dehydration and depleted potassium making parts of my brain shut down, or at least malfunction horribly. It is terrifying , and even looking at this picture makes me begin to feel the panic I felt during that episode. I could not identify anything, or figure out the connection between what I was touching and what I was seeing. Bath t…

> I need to go have a cup of tea. Looking at that has really shaken me.

I have had my episode of panic attack and just looking at that picture made me feel some of those bad feelings again. Really weird.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

#100
post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perfect analogy. This image is a visual nonsense poem... or would be if it were more poetic. It's fascinating to me. Both feel like they take my brain to the threshold of understanding and then it just gets stuck.

I disagree that it's a 'perfect analogy'. Jabberwocky is a poem created by a human that, while it contains made-up nonsense words, still makes sense. (The hero seeks out a fearsome monster, fights it, is victorious and is lauded for his victory on his return). The poem is aesthetically pleasing and intentionally playful in containing an element of nonsense but not too much. This picture, on the other hand, is nothing…

The way you phrase this suggests an unawareness of the fact that one comes to aesthetic judgement through interpretive frames, which are formed through personal experience and knowledge, and therefore express your aesthetic interpretations as more factual than they are.

I recommend Talk about a Painting: A Cognitive Developmental Analysis by Michael Parsons, can be found online easily.

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