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Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfwWarning: This post contains abstract depictions of nudity and may be unsuitable for the workplaceYahoo's recently open sourced neural network, open_nsfw, is a fine tuned Residual Network which scores images on a scale of to on its suitability for use in the workplace. In the documentation, Yahoo notes "Defining NSFW material is subjective and the task of identifying these images is non-trivial. Moreover, what may be objectionable in one context can be suitable in another." What makes an image NSFW, according to Yahoo? Like Google's Deep Dream, this visualization trick works by maximally activating certain neurons of the classifier.