TL;DR: Loab is an AI-generated slightly creepy human face. Idrk how AI works, but something about where that face falls in latent space allows it to keep reappearing repeatedly when combined with other images. For some unknown reason, AIs repeatedly associate this slightly disfigured face with gore and dead children. Sometimes, when Loab is combined with an image, she disappears, but she leaves some pattern on the image that allows her to reappear when that image is combined with another. Naturally, Twitter turned Loab into a queer icon.
(I haven’t checked the article out because I’m scared of seeing nasty shity)
Why am I not surprised? Maybe it’s because of how easy it is to sabotage AI (it has been done so many times it’s basically a rule). And on a similar note, for the Twitter part, just as un-surprised, similar rule. Seems bizarre. Also, one last thing, this has some freaky ass implications, like this feels straight out of a dark Sci-Fi work about an evil murderous AI or even a creepypasta.
She looks almost burnt, and these images give a weird gothic “hospital patient” vibe if you understand what I mean. I can kind of see why the AI would do such a thing. Hell I’m half convinced I’m going to get cursed by these faces.
Finished skimming, and wow it’s not as creepy as I thought it would be, although I feel like it could be prime creepypasta material, especially if it was spread in a less “centralized” age of information or through word of mouth. Some of this does look genuinely cool though, and some are kind of funny, and the more gorier/horror looking pieces are beyond fascinating, sickening, but still.
Remember, Loab is just an emergent phenomenon in an unmapped region of a 512-dimensional black box of unfathomable mysteries, and not a computer demon!
