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by jann 2613 days ago
I'm only reading about people getting really uncomfortable looking at this (on reddit).

To me it did nothing, although I also couldn't recognise any of the items in the picture.

Does anyone else have the same experience?

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Part of the reason people on reddit are reacting like that is because the OP on Reddit framed it with the bullshit title about it simulating a stroke.

Frame it differently and people would be more likely to go “huh, that’s weird”

I found it unsettling.

At first glance it's "oh easy I can easily spot something in there, like that... Oh... Uh?"

I guess its been crafted to tickle the pattern matching part of the brain, so it looks familiar, but not? Like the uncanny valley?

There’s at least a jewelry stand in that image you see at a flea market.
Yes, same here. Mild amusement but no discomfort. Had a discussion about it in a Facebook comment thread, and asked on or two of my friends. From my _very_ small sample size the number of neutral vs uncomfortable people seems about equal.

I suspect the people who feel most uncomfortable are the most vocal. Would be interesting to do a poll.

I can't say why, but these kind of images are really disturbing to me. They give me a mixture of disgust and anxiety...
I suspect there's more neurodiversity in our image processing stacks than we realize, and we've never before been able to observe it because all of our prior input was actually from a relatively small part of the possible image sample space that the real world can generate.

I find this mildly amusing, but I do the surreal and bizarre for entertainment routinely anyhow. But for the same reasons that I seek out those sensations, I find myself having sympathy for those who rather than seeking them out for occasional changes of pace, can't get away from them as they are haunted every moment of the day and night. That would be much less fun, to put it exceedingly mildly.

Compared to most DeepDream images this one isn't unsettling at all to me. I guess if you have seen a lot generated images, they become more familiar and less unsettling.
The first time I was the same. I looked at it a second time and the longer I looked it felt increasingly uncomfortable, almost to the point of panic.
i felt nothing until i read the comments saying it was unsettling, THEN i got a bit unsettled viewing it. i must be easily led!
Yes.