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When Google’s Search by Image Function Turns on Itself

Sebastian Schmeig, a Berlin-based new media artist, set up a recursive image search algorithm and animated the results at 12 images per second, tracing its evolutionary drift. Beginning with a transparent .png image file (virtually no image at all), Google’s Search by Image function turns up the most similar image it can find and then searches for the closest match to that image, and so on.

Via John Pavlus at FastCo.Design.