Sensual Machines
▻http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/122855634556/sensual-machines-experiment-investigation-by-samim
Experiment investigation by samim explores what happens when you apply contemporary #computer_vision methodologies with an #adult material dataset from the internet. It should be noted that there is pornographic material included in the essay, but this has been generally censored:
Sensual Machines is a series of experiments, exploring Computer Vision Systems. These experiments seek to highlight explicitly the importance of not only the Inputs, but also, and perhaps even more importantly, the Outputs and Outcomes of such machine activity. How would we see our world better through the machines’ eyes?
The experiment started innocently with a web-crawler collecting 10gb of images from the Web. The data was then analysed. Disconcertingly, a large proportion of these images turned out to be pornographic or militaristic in nature. Let’s explore this adult statistical anomaly through the eyes of machines - so we can see better.
