Donald Trump As Imagined By Google’s Deep Dream Interface Is All Your Nightmares Come To Life

Google’s Deep Dream interface, a primitive form of artificial intelligence software that’s trained to identify patterns in pictures, has been all over the internet since Google released the results of an experiment where the network was asked to alter images based on what it’s programmed to recognise. A few Deep Dream generators later, your once comforting pre-bedtime browsing has been regularly punctuated with hideous monstrosities from beyond the Void like this:

Internet comment come to life/Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is an objectionable enough creature by himself, but the misguided explorers at Deep Donald have committed to exploring what the Don looks like when his sagging maw is plugged into a malevolent algorithm with an imagination allowed to run wild, with dread results.

Behold, the Beast:

Describing Trump by turns as “a piece of Silly Putty molded into the shape of a man with bits of lint stuck to the top”, a “recently-kicked male scrotum given a set of vocal cords”, a “dried apricot wearing a suit” and a “pumpkin-hued hot air balloon”, the endlessly curious and surely doomed souls behind Deep Donald believe they’re embarking on “an intersection between art, science, and politics; a conversation on capitalism’s capacity of both soulless greed and wondrous innovation; an exploration of artificial cognitive abilities and their future ramifications for humanity.”

But by asking Google to make Donald Trump look like even more of a writhing mass of eyeballs and animal heads than he already is, they are toying with a corner of creation that will not brook toying with. They have reached for the stars, but grasped the abyss. Science has finally gone too far.

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