Surreal Neural Net Halloween Costumes

Last year, in a brilliant intersection between art and science, Janelle Shane trained a neural network on 4,500 Halloween costumes that her readers collected. This year, in a collaboration with the NYT, she trained a different neural network on over 7,100 costumes. Jessia Ma illustrated lots of them.

Here are some of the costumes that the neural network produced at various stages of training:

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