A neural network imagines a person. Then, one by one, neurons in the network are being switched off...

Just came across this creepy piece that surfaced some thoughts I have yet to structure into something coherent. Will share here when I manage to parse them into something intelligible. For now I wanted to share it here as well as a vice article that gives more context to it…


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evym4m/ai-told-me-human-face-neural-networks

If you have any proto-thoughts or reflections feel free to share them, would be much appreciated help to get my own head around this…

To me what is creepy is not so much watching a kind of time lapsed bit rot, but rather how it points to the reality we are entering where it will become increasingly difficult to know what is real and what is true the things you see on your screen or hear or view in media.