• Phyon@lemmy.world
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      I find it interesting how I knew there was something going on I couldn’t stop it from looking like a melted dog face. No matter how hard I tried to make sense of what was going on.

      Then I look at this and I can see the original picture clearly. I wonder how much our brain distorts on a regular basis that doesn’t get noticed.

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    if you can’t see it after some time then…

    spoiler

    … Rotate the image clockwise 90°

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    Can you post another picture of the dog in a normal position for reference?

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    Every fricken time, I have seen this image so many times and every fricken time it takes me so long to see it correctly. Brains are stupid.

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      I think it’s partly bc the image is low res. In sharp focus it would be almost immediately apparent that the nose is on the right, but it’s just poor enough that you can’t quite tell why the “right eye” looks funny.

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    This is what the AI must feel like when it sees adversarial images (really cool subject btw, look it up if you’re not familiar)

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    There is a part of your brain responsible for “seeing” and recognizing faces. It’s biased very, very strongly to see two dark spots side by side as eyes, a single spot in between and below them as a nose, and a horizontal linear feature below that as a mouth. It’s why these work: 😀 You instantly recognize that as not only a face, but a happy/joyous one.

    That bias is so strong that your brain gets it wrong sometimes, which is why people see Jesus in their toast, a man in the moon, or a weird abstract right side up dog in a messy low resolution picture of a sideways but normal dog.

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    Weirdly, I saw it normally immediately. Then I stared at it until it made no sense at all, as I tried to figure out why people would be confused.

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    I think a contributing reason is that AI generated images exist, and it’s really tempting to discount this picture as one of them