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[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Turn your phone clockwise.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

Oh man thanks for this. It was driving me nuts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you! All I could see was a zombie dog with a face melt

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I find it interesting how I knew there was something going on I couldn't stop it from looking like a melted dog face. No matter how hard I tried to make sense of what was going on.

Then I look at this and I can see the original picture clearly. I wonder how much our brain distorts on a regular basis that doesn't get noticed.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

if you can't see it after some time then...

spoiler... Rotate the image clockwise 90°

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

I'm going to need even more help because in every orientation all I see is like a horrifically disfigured dog face.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'd say

spoilerrotate it 110 degrees. The "nose" is the left eye.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That... Actually kind of hurt a little?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

It melted my brain a little, so I decided to pass the pain on to others. You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel so foolish after trying to find the hidden "GAY SEX" or "SEND NUDES" messages for a bit too long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The real hidden "Gay Sex" was inside you all along!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you post another picture of the dog in a normal position for reference?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This image has been reposted a million times all over the internet. I'm not sure where the original is from...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Rotate the picture 90 degrees clockwise.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

This is what the AI must feel like when it sees adversarial images (really cool subject btw, look it up if you're not familiar)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every fricken time, I have seen this image so many times and every fricken time it takes me so long to see it correctly. Brains are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think it's partly bc the image is low res. In sharp focus it would be almost immediately apparent that the nose is on the right, but it's just poor enough that you can't quite tell why the "right eye" looks funny.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

There is a part of your brain responsible for "seeing" and recognizing faces. It's biased very, very strongly to see two dark spots side by side as eyes, a single spot in between and below them as a nose, and a horizontal linear feature below that as a mouth. It's why these work: 😀 You instantly recognize that as not only a face, but a happy/joyous one.

That bias is so strong that your brain gets it wrong sometimes, which is why people see Jesus in their toast, a man in the moon, or a weird abstract right side up dog in a messy low resolution picture of a sideways but normal dog.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Well part of the reason is because there's a total of 12 pixels in that image.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It doesn't look like anything to me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Analysis mode

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I think a contributing reason is that AI generated images exist, and it's really tempting to discount this picture as one of them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Weirdly, I saw it normally immediately. Then I stared at it until it made no sense at all, as I tried to figure out why people would be confused.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

LOL. You're right. Me too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That made my brain feel funny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is the name of this thing? I remember reading about it years ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It's called a dog.