Deep Angel (2018-2019)

Produced by Iyad Rahwan’s Scalable Cooperation lab at MIT, Deep Angel is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that erases people, animals, vehicles, and more from photographs. Inspired by Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, Deep Angel is an interactive AI designed to both share a glimpse into the future of media manipulation and explore the aesthetics of absence. What happens when anything can be auto-disappeared in images? Deep Angel was one of the early warning signals about the power of AI to manipulate media and alter narratives.

Selected media: New York Times, Artsy, Aeon, Fast Company, Le Monde (video), Venture Beat, Digg, Modern Treatise

Team: Matthew Groh, Ziv Epstein, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Joyce Feng, Iyad Rahwan

Exhibits:

• Ars Electronica

• SXSW

• NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity & Design

• MIT Museum

Scientific writings:

• Groh, M., Epstein, Z., Obradovich, N., Cebrian, M., & Rahwan, I. (2019). Human detection of machine manipulated media. Communications of the ACM, October 2021, Vol. 64 No. 10, Pages 40-47.
  [Published paper, Free pre-print]