IT'S almost Halloween and a creepy AI app may give you the fright you have been looking for.
The aptly named Make Me a Zombie software takes any headshot you give it and turns it into a convincing-looking zombie face.
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Examples given on its website include a rather terrifying zombie version of U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
Anyone can insert their image into the website, and it can be turned into a zombie with one click.
The website claims to keep your data safe and won't store your images.
It explains: "We only use your images to make zombie pictures.
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"They are never even stored on disk, so once your zombie is made, we have no record of your image.
"The only other data we collect is standard google analytics for counting page views and the like."
The website relies on a method of artificial intelligence called a neural network.
It states: "In short, the system passes a picture of your face through a neural network that turns it into a zombie."
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The creators explain in much more detail how they trained the AI in a Reddit post.
It involved the AI viewing around 50,000 pairs of images.
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Some of the images were of humans and some were of zombie masks.
The AI then effectively learned to combine the two, creating the terrifying Biden and Trump pictures above.
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