“It starts off with “huh?”, a sense of mystification about what the algorithm could be responding to. Then there’s a kind of aesthetic of the glitch. “Oh it’s a screw up, how funny and slightly troubling”. But then finally, the more of these I saw, the more the effect started to feel truly other: like a coherent, but alien idea of what faces were. It made me wonder what I was missing. “What is it seeing there?”
— Greg Borenstein - Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella meets FaceTracker
