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NIGHTMARE
NIGHTMARE MACHINE
MACHINE
Horror imagery generated by artificial intelligence.

WARNING: IMAGES ON THIS WEBSITE ARE

GENERATED BY DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS
AND MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL
USERS. THEY CONTAIN SCARY CONTENT.

HAUNTED FACES
Do they scare you? Help our algorithm learn!

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We used state-of-the-art deep learning Then, we dropped a hint of scariness onto Now, we wonder: which faces are scarier?
algorithms to generate new faces. the generated faces in the spirit of Help our algorithm learn
Halloween. scariness by voting our faces!

HELP OUR ALGORITHM LEARN

SCARINESS BY VOTING
OUR HAUNTED FACES!

HAUNTED PLACES
We use state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms to learn how haunted houses, or toxic cities look like. Then, we apply the
learnt style to famous landmarks and present you: AI-powered horror all over the world!

STYLE: HAUNTED HOUSE

Neuschwanstein Castle The Colosseum St. Basil's Cathedral

Schwangau, Germany Roma, Italy Moscow, Russia

STYLE: FRIGHT NIGHT

Statue of Liberty Eiffel Tower Tokyo Tower

NYC, USA Paris, France Tokyo, Japan

STYLE: SLAUGHTER HOUSE

Taj Mahal Casa Mila The Colosseum

Agra, India Barcelona, Spain Roma, Italy

STYLE: TOXIC CITY

Mt. Kilimanjaro Taj Mahal Capitol Hill

Tanzania Agra, India Washington, USA

STYLE: GHOST TOWN

The Opera House Stonehenge Palmyra

Sydney, Australia Amesbury, United Kingdom Syria

STYLE: INFERNO

Palacio Real Tower Bridge Louvre Museum

Madrid, Spain London, England Paris, France

STYLE: TENTACLE MONSTER

Golden Gate Bridge Pisa Tower The Colosseum

San Francisco, CA Pisa, Italy Roma, Italy

STYLE: ALIEN INVASION

New York City The Colosseum Palmyra

NY, USA Rome, Italy Syria

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ABOUT
AI-powered trick or treat!

2000 YEARS AGO

Beginning of Everything
The mysterious origin of Halloween traditions can
be traced back to the ancient pagans festivals
celebrated by Celts. The Celtic people marked the
day as the end of the harvest season and the
beginning of the winter. They believed the
transition between the seasons is opening a gate to
the world of the dead.

1000 YEARS AGO

First Signs of Artificial Intelligence
Eastern and Western Civilizations have scripted
legends where human-made created entities,
artificial beings capable of thinking, feeling, helping
or harming others. These creatures would, in many
stories, escape the controls of their creators, and
gained knowledge and abilities beyond what
anyone would have thought.

1816
The Year Without Summer
The spring of 1816 experienced one of the strangest
meteorological phenomena ever recorded: a never-
ending winter. This resulted three great writers to
lock themselves at a mansion at Lake Geneva. Mary
Shelley, John William Polidori, Lord Byron had a
competition to see who would produce the scariest
story ever written. And they all won. Shelley
created Frankenstein; Polidory planted the seed of
Vampirism; and Byron, in his poem Darkness,
narrated by the last man on earth produced the first
item of the apocalyptic horror genre.

1840
First Computer Program Ever
Written
AI and Horror cross paths: Anne Isabella Milbanke,
wife of Lord Byron (the founding father of modern
Vampire literature) gives birth to Ada Lovelace, a
pioneer in the history of computation. Ada would go
on to write the world's first machine algorithm for
an early computing machine that existed only on
paper.

1930
Horror Goes Pop
1930s movie screens exploit like no other medium
before the emotional ride of getting scared in a dark
room with strangers. Many movie hits, from
Frankenstein, to Dracula, to The Mummy, to The
Invisible Man, culminating in Werewolf in London
put horror front and center of how the society
decides to have a really good time... spawning a
creative and lucrative horror-making industry.

1956
Artificial Intelligence is Born
1956's summer, this time a hot one, brings Marvin
Minsky and other brilliant minds together at
Darthmouth College. In a explosion of creativity,
they plant the seeds of what Artificial Intelligence
would become: developing programs able to beat
humans at checkers, to do complex math... some of
these machines were even able to formulate English
sentences. Rumours said that the first sentences
typed by a computer were... TRICK OR TREAT?

2016
AI-powered horror
Since centuries, across geographies, religions, and
cultures people try to innovate ways of scaring each
other. Creating a visceral emotion such as fear
remains one of the cornerstones of human
creativity. This challenge is especially important in
a time where we wonder what the limits of
Artificial Intelligence are: Can machines learn to
scare us? Towards this goal, we present you
Haunted Faces and Haunted Places: computer
generated scary imagery powered by deep learning
algorithms and evil spirits!

CAN MACHINES
LEARN TO
SCARE US?

MEET OUR SCARY TEAM!

Pinar Yanardag Manuel Cebrian

Post-doc at MIT Media Lab Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61

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Nick Obradovich Iyad Rahwan

Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab

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"Every day is halloween, isn't it? For some of us."-- Tim Burton

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