Name One Thing…
A photo has went viral that has everyone wondering, what the hell is in this picture…
What do you see in this image? Viewers are finding it impossible to identify any of the objects in the picture, and it’s freaking them out.
Twitter user @melip0ne shared the image on Tuesday and asked “Name one thing in this photo.” It has since generated thousands of bewildered replies and outlandish guesses.
The image isn’t just stumping viewers; it’s also making some of them very uneasy, leading to comments such as “i feel so uncomfortable,” “This stresses me out” and “Thx losing my sanity now.”
Trying to interpret an ambiguous image like this sparks uncertainty, which can lead to feeling “creeped-out,” Dr. Frank McAndrew, a professor of psychology at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, told Live Science in an email.
The viral picture was likely generated digitally by artificial intelligence (AI), said Janelle Shane, an electrical engineering researcher who trains neural networks — a type of AI that “learns” in a manner similar to a brain.
Shane told Live Science that she was “95% sure” this image was created by a neural network called BigGAN, an algorithm Google trained to compose detailed photos from scratch.
Name one thing in this photo pic.twitter.com/zgyE9rL2XP
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