Twitter Bot Gives Celebrity Photos Nightmarish Grins

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Ryan F. Mandelbaum

at 12:27 PM Jun 27 2016

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So very wrong...

Tom White/Smilevector

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Today in "terrifying things you can't look away from" is smilevector, a Twitter bot that uses a neural network to take photos from the internet and add or remove smiles.

Smilevector was created this month by Tom White, a lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Design in Wellington, New Zealand. The bot is based on generative neural networks, which means it was trained by looking at lots of smiles, and has now learned to add or remove them to other photos. It's a smile expert. Smile for the smile expert. You must smile. You must obey your smile overlord.

Turn that frown upside down

Smile for smilevector.

You must smile

You must smile.

Do not resist.

Or else

Otherwise,

Smile for smilevector

Smilevector will make you frown.