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[–] jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 133 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Turn your phone clockwise.

[–] chepox@sopuli.xyz 43 points 2 years ago

Oh man thanks for this. It was driving me nuts.

[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you! All I could see was a zombie dog with a face melt

[–] Phyon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I find it interesting how I knew there was something going on I couldn't stop it from looking like a melted dog face. No matter how hard I tried to make sense of what was going on.

Then I look at this and I can see the original picture clearly. I wonder how much our brain distorts on a regular basis that doesn't get noticed.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

if you can't see it after some time then...

spoiler... Rotate the image clockwise 90°

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago

I'm going to need even more help because in every orientation all I see is like a horrifically disfigured dog face.

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I'd say

spoilerrotate it 110 degrees. The "nose" is the left eye.

[–] Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel so foolish after trying to find the hidden "GAY SEX" or "SEND NUDES" messages for a bit too long.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The real hidden "Gay Sex" was inside you all along!

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That... Actually kind of hurt a little?

It melted my brain a little, so I decided to pass the pain on to others. You're welcome.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you post another picture of the dog in a normal position for reference?

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This image has been reposted a million times all over the internet. I'm not sure where the original is from...

Rotate the picture 90 degrees clockwise.

[–] YaksDC@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every fricken time, I have seen this image so many times and every fricken time it takes me so long to see it correctly. Brains are stupid.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

I think it's partly bc the image is low res. In sharp focus it would be almost immediately apparent that the nose is on the right, but it's just poor enough that you can't quite tell why the "right eye" looks funny.

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago

This is what the AI must feel like when it sees adversarial images (really cool subject btw, look it up if you're not familiar)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Well part of the reason is because there's a total of 12 pixels in that image.

There is a part of your brain responsible for "seeing" and recognizing faces. It's biased very, very strongly to see two dark spots side by side as eyes, a single spot in between and below them as a nose, and a horizontal linear feature below that as a mouth. It's why these work: 😀 You instantly recognize that as not only a face, but a happy/joyous one.

That bias is so strong that your brain gets it wrong sometimes, which is why people see Jesus in their toast, a man in the moon, or a weird abstract right side up dog in a messy low resolution picture of a sideways but normal dog.

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It doesn't look like anything to me

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

I think a contributing reason is that AI generated images exist, and it's really tempting to discount this picture as one of them

[–] Genrawir@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Weirdly, I saw it normally immediately. Then I stared at it until it made no sense at all, as I tried to figure out why people would be confused.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

LOL. You're right. Me too.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That made my brain feel funny

[–] xdr@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is the name of this thing? I remember reading about it years ago

It's called a dog.