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Works of art by a Twitter bot

March 8, 2016

Deep Forger is a Twitter bot which transforms photos into famous works of art. Send a picture to the account and you’ll get an image back of it morphed in the style of one of 2500 classic paintings.

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Image: Universität Tübingen

Works of art by a Twitter bot

Deep Forger was programmed by Alex Champandard. Originally from France, he now lives in Vienna, where he works as a computer game developer specializing in artificial intelligence. The bot is based on the principle of neural networking, which allows it to learn as it works. Check out its greatest masterpieces at the @DeepForger account.