generative adversarial network:

a computer program fed snapshots of human culture (animals, buildings, faces) and tasked with creating its own vision of subjective reality to add to the set. it compares its work to these bite-size pieces of our world, searching for flaws, and continues its thoughtless generation until it can no longer distinguish real from construct.

look, here is a house that no one built, here is the face of a being who was never born, here is a random string spun into a work of abstract art.

they call the inside of a neural network a "black box" because they aren't entirely sure how it thinks.

its process is alien, though its end result is too recognizable.

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