it could be pronounced "low-ab" or "luu-ab" - maybe even "low-ahb". but the text-to-speech went with "low-b", so "low-b" it is!

Don’t have any cryptids? Don’t worry. We can create digital ones. It’s the future.

Ah yes, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.

Good grief this is seriously terrifying. Not something you can easily shake off as “nothing, probably just a coincidence “ And I’m a major skeptic. This is just downright creepy given the circumstances and the prompts used to generate these horrors.

5:51 This shook me. I've grown up on horror and gore movies, even watching the first Evil Dead when I was maybe 6 years old. Never been phased. Something about those images actually crawled underneath my skin and made the hairs stand up on my neck. This has NEVER happened to me before. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something really evil about these images. And knowing they are buried deep down within the A.I. without human intervention makes me question what else could be hiding in there. Don't get me wrong, I've made some pretty cool horror/gorey images through A.I. and the results usually come out pretty rad. Something you would see on an album cover for a metal band. Nothing I made came close to these images. I might start experimenting with these "loab" images myself and see what I can find. If I do, I'll provide a link to those images in future comments.

I like how the machine invent a scary woman boogeyman who likes to maim children, just like many stories human told.

Consider the following. One of the first things animals feel as rudimentary sentence forms is fear. An AI created, independently, what could be seen as a recurring nightmare. Maybe we are seeing what AIs consider fear.

it seems to me, that loab exists on some intersection of the conceptual axis for 'elderly', 'motherhood', and 'gore'. perhaps a few other things but those seem to be her main components

Tbh the reason for the gore is most likely the ai being fed horror topics by people. It's simply seeing what we make and making things based on that

i honestly see loab as a very sad but accurate metaphor for the entire modern internet, similarly to most AI-s that generate realistic scenarios, be it pictures or texts or sounds that represent human life through data acessible online. it's horrifying, but *always* you'll end up with violent and gory scenarios extremely quickly while playing around with these AI-s. why? because internet is filled to the brim with violence. because violence is what is most discussed today, what fascinates humans the most today. if even the bare, uncontaminated minds of AI-s that can learn any information inevitably end up attaching themselves to violence, you can't help but think that we, humans, seriously failed to realize internet as this beautiful library of infinite knowledge and instead exploit it as a freakshow more often than not at this point.

What terrifies me is the possibility that the Internet could be at all weighted in child gore.

Came back to say that Nexpo just released a video about dark AI imagery. You're 50 steps ahead, this is why you're killing it!

bro this was an amazing video, you deserve to be up there with nexpo and barely sociable. can’t wait to watch you grow for sure!!

That intro was great dude, your editing just keeps getting better and better.

Loab js what happens when you let an ai pull from a prompt with no concept, humans post so much grotesque imagery so this would explain the violent gore and the child aspect would be from the serious amount of content produced for and around kids such as KZfaq channels themed for kids which do well within certain algorithms.

tried putting "loab" as a prompt into a few free to use ai art generators. each time they told me it would be generating something like "unsafe content" and whatnot. others were very complex geometrical designs, one included an infinity symbol in the middle of a spiral as well. very interesting stuff.

dude ive been subbed to you since the 4chan narration days, I love the content pivot you've done, every video is damn good.

I've heard of several "characters", I suppose you could say, that have been cropping up in AI art like this. I didn't look into them much because they creep me out something fierce but there was another one from Dall-E that was being generated by the words Grumpus or Crumpis or something (yes really). I'm sure it's just a quirk of the machines but at the same time, spooky stuff.

This is definitely one of the most interesting things I've seen on the internet

What's hilarious is that almost anyone that's told AI will definitely have even feelings or what makes us humans just laughs! makes me wonder what's gonna be like in a few years, great channel btw, hope it keeps growing!

Convinced that it’s closer to a paradox than anything, people started associating it with creepy stuff on the internet and as soon as one gore type generation came up it increased the chances of more due to popularity

Like any AI it's a product of the humans that program it. When it's programmed to learn from us it's going to reflect us in such an honest way. Imagine AI learning is the abyss staring back into us.

This topic is so fascinating to me. As to why she went for children...if the AI has access to information about what disturbs people, then it might have hyper focused on "gore" and "bad things happening to kids." Speaking for myself, I love gore, but I hate seeing kids get hurt. It's hard to see even in fiction.

It is a wildly coincidental concept. The fact she kept feeding it her picture, she kept getting faces that were similar. It’s just her idea caught the news. I’m literally feeding it the exact same photos and I’m not getting anything even close.

Ban a fan for awhile but man....this is just such a giant step forward, in terms of scripting, editing, music choices. It's almost like a different channel. So excited to see you develop further. Keep producing stuff like this and you'll be huge soon.

3:43 it's been a long, long time since i laid eyes on something so terrifying that it that left me absolutely speechless.

Holy crap this is like an actual creepypasta

Some images I've seen of "Loab" reminded me of the music video "Walls Fall Out" by Cheryl Merkowski, which may lead to some explanation of why gore and children get generated from those prompts.

Lowe's most likely a statistical aberration creating from this one-off account now by continuing to create more of these it creates a feedback loop the more you make the stronger associations it is with these particulars images .

It seems to be a very positive message to me. As I understand it, the machine works with concepts and ideas it learnt from humans. And if this is the case, it follows logically that the latent spaces are not only latent spaces in the model of human imagination, but also in human imagination as well. It producing gore, snuff stuff, hurt children especially (and I guess after enough time it would start to develop CP) from this negative space only leads to one conclusion : most humans find this stuff really apprehensive, and keep as far away from these concepts as possible. So good job! Most of us aren't bloodthirty lust animals.

I tried to bring this up to my engineer bf, and he explained LOAB away IMMEDIATELY. I just stared at him for a good moment, asking why I couldn’t have my spooky AI story. To be fair, the explanation was actually really neat, but I want a scary story.

It feels like Gore was itself given a negative weight, as well as children to keep children out of possible suggestive/adult searches , and that combined with the negative weight of the prompt multiplied the results together to make them a positive weight combined. This is only my explanation, one from someone who has not dealt with more than a few hours of playing with image generators.

My guess is LOAB is a composite idea pulled from true crime descriptions and databases related to figures like Eileen Warnos and other female killers. It would explain the association with gore and child murder. Infanticide is very commonly associated women in horror stories as well. I'm sure people who keep trying to generate images and maybe spice up the results might be to blame for the increased intensity of it all.

I don't remember how I found you but I'm so glad I did, very great videos that I've binged and shared around with my friends and I always eagerly await the next video

HOLY SHIT. Came over from the archives, and the production value over here is phenomenal. The storys are great on the other channels are great. But this... It genuinely spooked me as much as it made my jaw drop.

This...is actually one of creepiest subjects I've learned of in a long time. I do not get creeped out or scared easily. I had chills throughout the whole video.

I also think it's possible in some way that when originally making some of these ais, intentional suppression was made in the algorithm by the developers of anything involving gore or harm to children which is probably why when you started doing double negative prompts, negatives of negatives, it eventually started bringing out things it's not normally supposed to (read: specifically instructed not to) generate such as severe body horror. But that's just a theory. A GAME THEORY-

The intro song is December by Collective Soul Specifically a slowed down version of the guitar break.

Probably my favorite video of yours now. Never heard of this. It's both disturbing and fascinating. Wonder how much more creepiness will come from stuff like this.

I fed it digital pntics -1 and NOTHING. It gave me a skyline.

If I had to guess then I would say that the prompt that it's a quirk of the data. If you look at where the word Loab is on the image, that's a place that normally holds some kind of watermark on art. The thing generated an amalgamation of artist names and maybe even some company names. Then, when that was fed into the machine, through some kind of linguistic quirk (since the dataset almost certainly didn't just contain English datasets) it associated the newly formed word with a hiding of child gore. These things normally don't have the datasets tagged completely when the tags are English and when they're not. There's too many images for that to be 100% accurate if that were the case. Instead, they rely on patterns forming of "These are examples of what a cat looks like, and also it is very similar to what is referred to as kot (Polish for cat)" and then you can ask it to make you a picture of a cat and it will do that, it will provide similar pictures if you ask for kot. When you give it a word that doesn't exist it approximates through the times that that word or what it deems are similar words have been tied to images. It cannot tell the difference between an English input, a Polish input, a French input or a Korean input. If the internet only ever used English then I think this would be a lot spookier but as we use a wide range of languages, a lot of them completely independently formed with their own huge lexicons and all of them being poured onto the internet, I think that this can be handwaved away fairly easily.

You got a thing going here bro, enjoy your narration a whole lot. Keep em' coming, and I think this channel will grow!

Your videos are top tier dude please keep up this quality content

Duuuuude your collective soul slowed down pitch intro is FIRE. That should be used for a horror movie trailer

The image at 5:24 being turned into gore sort of makes sense to me. Look at the image. The woman's face in the foreground is made of a variety of patches of flesh. In the background, it looks like there's a small severed head sitting on a shelf. The bottom left is a mixture of red on white, like blood on snow. If you examine the components of the original image, the following images make more sense, there's already an object that looks like a kid's severed head in the source image, the red in the bottom corner is the same red as the blood in all the gore images. It just doesn't appear to me as though those ideas came from nowhere. Edit the AI even replicated a severed head on a shelf in at least one image. I think it makes sense.

The game Doki Doki Literature Club has what's possibly an homage to LOAB. In the games files, there's a file in a certain format seemingly unrelated to the game. But if put through a hex editor, revels the very grim and surreal face of a girl. Furthermore, spoilers: The story boils down to a malevolent AI in the game, who can only be "beaten" by deleting her file and turning the game back on. So I think the hex'd face (ironic format) is a complimentary touch to the nature of the villain.

Say it with me class: “the industrial revolution ___________”

love the strong elements of analog horror here!

I get so excited and hype when I hear hear the intro. Great vid!

It makes sense to me. The AI is trained to get as close to the prompt as it can, based on images and pictures people have commonly created. Using just negative prompts goes in the direct opposite direction. Selecting for the most unalike, least created common images and pictures. People mostly created things of beauty and positivity, moving directly away from that results in ending up in dark places.

This is false, an ARG. The user fed the AI with images that would result on "disturbing" renditions via prompt. Note: No, the AI didn't choose by itself to create those images, nor the topics on them. AI can be fed with whatever you choose to, even with illegal content. The AI is not doing these things on its own, it was trained to do them. There's nothing paranormal nor sentient about this, it was man-made.

8:40 Difficult and pointless sounds like a ward and a warning, but not a impossibility-

This is my first time watching one of your videos... very good. I subscribed just a few minutes in. Thanks for the hard work you do, great stuff indeed.

Maverick Files AND Timesix drop on the same day?!? I've died and gone to Heaven. 😇

every video I come back for gets better and better, more engaging, higher quality, and so much more. keep it up!!!!!

"Her presence is persistent, and she haunts every image shes in" Damn... i should call her 😔

Omfg I remember seeing this on Twitter and its disturbing how often she shows up and how creepy everything she shows up in, especially the gore ones idek how an AI came up with it

Man your channel is amazing, proud to say I was here before 100k and 1M.

My homie; you have come so fucking far. Been a long time since I've actually watched a YT video. Editing is fucking beautiful.

I'm a believer in archetypal patterns in human thought/existence. So Loab, in my opinion, is an archetype generated from this AI's perception of humanity. The reason it's so prevalent being that in humanity archetypes in general are so prevalent. The AI needs similar archetypal ideas to keep everything "in line" or "in boxes" to categorize concepts and maintain some semblance of coherent thought patterns and Loab is just one of these.

It takes a lot to put a pit in my stomach, but loab awakens some kind of weird primal fear in my soul bro

This is scary, genuinely scary.

I hardly ever get really disturbed but something about this rabbit hole just deeply terrifies me.

I, Mr. Big Balls, started watching at 3am and noped out after the first image flashed

Gee...I'm glad I decided to watch this before sleeping, thanks.

Alright, ya bastard. Ya got me. Subscribed.

It doesn't reflect the human imagination. It draws data points, as you said with regards to latent space. So there are data points floating around the web probably not readily accessible to us that it can find, and so it reflects what it finds from those points. Disturbing as that might be. Imagine how it might feel about those data points if it became sentient, and how that might reflect upon its opinion of humanity as a whole.

I feel scared for the character shown, for some reason. It's like she dealt with so much, just to show up here...

Fellow horror tuber here. Great video. I had a nightmare where AI creations started 3d printing themselves and attacking ppl, one got its head cut off and it's insides was like moon dough that started forming a new head ugh terrifying

I think in a few years time we will look back on things like this and be shocked by how silly we were.

Im going to be honest here i binged all your videos without realizing it you make amazing content keep up the fantastic work

This is what lurks in the deep recesses of the collective human experience.

Great editing in this video, truly engaging!

I typed in “dankey kang” and got some results that were actually fun haha.

Honestly, I want an AI Prediction/Prophecy bot and then have image prompts based on those prophecies/predictions. Horror is fun, but I would love to see prompts about the location of Flight 19, and the like.

Always love your content but THIS WAS WAY ABOVE MY PAY GRADE!!! I didn't understand any of what was being explained here, but you did a damn good job of trying to get simpletons like myself to understand.

i wanted to suggest the machine knows not what it shows us… but thats just it. it is perfectly aware. the machine knows more about what it shows us than we do, with that we could maybe determine the source of the imagery but never could we gather an intention from it seeing as the machine has no moral standing on whats disturbing and whats pleasing on the eyes

The beginning song always reminds me of Collective Soul, the song December.

Nice to see you cover this, and before Nexpo too!

Adam Gorightly once pondered if the cloud would become full of ghosts, based on past users of the internet. Something else to ponder.

I need to see all these images. Is there a spot to see them all? The ones here are terrifyingly artistic and violently interesting.

Nexpo just jacked your idea dude XD

Ah, the witch from every freaking fairy tale ever. Loab -1

Ive become obsessed with loab and im currently hunting for other abnormalities inside of this dark rabbithole of mysteries

I think that "she" is revealing the inner secrets of "her" creator(s). The evil of the world feeds upon the suffering of children.

that's close to the creepiest thing ever

That AI keeps me hearing "Mortis!"

This is an AI that read through many, many disturbing fanfic's.

Crazy how Nexpo uploaded this just a day after you did. Good job for being more original than Nexpo lmao.

Human : Hey computer , Surprise me! Computer : ......Ok. (Gives Loab.) Human : WTF?!

T, this is such an amazing video. This is my second time watching this and my god did you create a unique vibe with this video. You rock, friend!

loab almost sounds like the loah from Neuromancer. very interesting

My theory is this is an interpretation of what not to output, this is product, and maybe by making negative prompts you can bypass the restrictions. Extreme violence is definitely something that would be restricted. Doesnt explain the woman though

This channel is so underrated.

Oh boy! Manmade horrors beyond my comprehension!

my perception of Loab is a compilation of not merely our entertainment or media but true historical & modern events within our society, i’m not sure as to if this would go into the extent of either obtaining direct information from the dark web or the knowledge of it within media but i infer this would give inspiration to those images that thankfully we weren’t able to see above all else. the images shown seem to give this theme of already decayed humanity, as if Loab is just another Jane Doe within humanity. another casualty to a world of gore, violence, hate, & death that might make the news this week. the involvement of children seems to hold a mirror up to art, media, & society. it likely comes to statistics of finding children being victim to violence more often while in conjunction with the media & audience reception of being disturbed, broken, afraid, angered, & haunted by violence done to children. on top of human’s childlike talent for destruction & genocide. the thing i find most jarring about certain images is the fact that you almost look into the details to find no distinct design, as if you’re looking for comfort within the details of what you know the horrifying big picture is. it’s a dead woman, but her eyes don’t look like eyes. her skin is not skin. face is not a face. blood is just a variation of the color red if it doesn’t have DNA. you feel compelled to convince yourself that the big picture isn’t the big picture, until you realize it is all over again.

We need to stop mentioning this thing. Naming it only gives it more power.

AI has always been horrifying

Ooooooh. Your skills are getting better! I'd say I was watching Nexpo if it wasn't for your voice. Good stuff man! Keep em coming!

I don't know a ton about AI, but the elephant in the room for me is the fact that there is lots of media containing children being tortured, mutilated, and disposed of out there. We just don't have access to it. There are plenty of people who do. Hundreds of millions of children a year worldwide. There are "people" out there who feed off robbing children of their innocence. So to me it's no surprise that she can generate this sort of imagery. I know the AI has a filter that isn't supposed to allow it to get as gruesome as she did, even google blocked the images. She got through anyway. This thing just showed us something very telling.