Ghosts, monsters, the living dead... Artificial intelligence? In this day and age, technology fits into the horror category, and rightfully so. Given just how much it has advanced in the past couple of years, it isn't so absurd to think that Terminators and killer robots could one day become a reality.

One of the most interesting uses of AI today is to generate images based on text descriptions alone. One Instagram user named Gordon user took such a concept to produce movie posters for famous horror movies, just in time for the spooky season. As impressive as they are, it's also quite unsettling to think a computer program produced all of them, and accurately too. In fact, almost all of the horror movie posters could pass off as the real ones.

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Images were generated for The Thing, The Exorcist, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, John Carpenter's Halloween, Trick 'r Treat, Se7en, Jennifer's Body, and Rosemary's Baby. Each movie poster consists of an amalgamation of various visual elements that reflect the text descriptions inputted by the user. The technology itself isn't perfect, which is why the final products all have an abstract feel to them. However, one could argue that such style makes them look even scarier.

AI-generated art is a fairly new concept but it continues to grow in popularity. Using a program called VQGAN+CLIP, a user can receive a computer-produced array of clips that tell their own story. Aside from the text descriptions, the AI does everything by itself. Every element of the final product is chosen by the program based on its interpretation of the artist's words. Other artists have used the technology to produce images of what some historical icons might have looked like, what mythical places like Asgard or Atlantis might look like, and even what a zombie apocalypse might look like.

Now that computers can visualize images, could AI-generated movies be next? Presently, filmmakers are experimenting with the technology and it's always interesting to see how the movies will turn out. In 2016, an experimental science fiction short film called Sunspring was produced entirely by an AI, and it turned out to be "hilarious and intense," according to Ars Technica.

While the concept is definitely groundbreaking, it has received criticism from some viewers who think that AI removes the creative aspect out from the filmmaking process. Still, it will be interesting to see how AI will influence the film industry and if machine-written works are indeed the next step in entertainment.

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Source: Gordon | Instagram