AI turns children’s books illustrations into nightmares

Researchers have seen hundreds of children's books through the eyes of an AI – and it was a nightmare. The team trained a deep learning algorithm to recognize illustrations by feeding it a data set of 6,468 pages from 223 books, by 24 artist. Once the AI had learned the characteristics of a specific artist, it transferred them to a new image that is sure to give children night terrors – it lit a smiling turtle on fire, engulfed a girl in flames and turned a snow covered scene bottom into an image of the apocalypse. Researchers aimed to teach a deep deep learning algorithm to recognize patterns and used children's books illustrations. The team fed the AI a data set of 6,468 pages from 223 books, by 24 artist.