The artist Tom White has used this effect to create a new kind of abstract art. He gives one AI a palette of abstract blobs and color washes and tells it to draw something (a jack-o’-lantern, for example) that another AI can identify.12 The resulting drawings look only vaguely like the things they’re supposed to be—a “measuring cup” is a squat green blob covered in horizontal scribbles, and a “cello” looks more like a human heart than a musical instrument. But to ImageNet-trained algorithms, the pictures are uncannily accurate. In a way, this artwork is a form of adversarial attack.
