https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/2/15/18226005/ai-generated-fake-people-portraits-thispersondoesnotexist-stylegan

The ability of AI to generate fake visuals is not yet mainstream knowledge, but a new website — ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com — offers a quick and persuasive education.

The site is the creation of Philip Wang, a software engineer at Uber, and uses research released last year by chip designer Nvidia to create an endless stream of fake portraits. The algorithm behind it is trained on a huge dataset of real images, then uses a type of neural network known as a generative adversarial network (or GAN) to fabricate new examples.

https://www.lyrn.ai/2018/12/26/a-style-based-generator-architecture-for-generative-adversarial-networks/

The underlying AI framework powering the site was originally invented by a researcher named Ian Goodfellow. Nvidia’s take on the algorithm, named StyleGAN, was made open source recently and has proven to be incredibly flexible. Although this version of the model is trained to generate human faces, it can, in theory, mimic any source. Researchers are already experimenting with other targets. including anime characters, fonts, and graffiti.

https://youtu.be/kSLJriaOumA

mollwollfumble said:

Normal people usually wear a set of two matching earrings.

Divine Angel said:

mollwollfumble said:

Normal people usually wear a set of two matching earrings.

Bugger. That means I’m not normal.

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

mollwollfumble said:

Normal people usually wear a set of two matching earrings.

Bugger. That means I’m not normal.

That’s hardly news to us.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Divine Angel said:

Normal people usually wear a set of two matching earrings.

Bugger. That means I’m not normal.

That’s hardly news to us.

:) So glad you noticed.

I bet people who look exactly like those portraits do actually exist.

Spanner thrown….

It’s just photos made from bits and pieces of other photos, nothing revolutionary.

Bubblecar said:

It’s just photos made from bits and pieces of other photos, nothing revolutionary.

Like visual art though, it’s all just bits and pieces of pigment that get used in other arrangements of pigment, also par for the course.

Divine Angel said:

mollwollfumble said:

Normal people usually wear a set of two matching earrings.

Oh cripes. I should have seen that.Thanks.

SCIENCE said:

Bubblecar said:

It’s just photos made from bits and pieces of other photos, nothing revolutionary.

Like visual art though, it’s all just bits and pieces of pigment that get used in other arrangements of pigment, also par for the course.

Perhaps so. But I know that I couldn’t program it. I’d get stuck with, say, the edge between hair and forehead appearing as a ghost in the combined completed image.

SCIENCE said:

Bubblecar said:

It’s just photos made from bits and pieces of other photos, nothing revolutionary.

Like visual art though, it’s all just bits and pieces of pigment that get used in other arrangements of pigment, also par for the course.

The difference though is that in art something original and different is valued, whereas in these images the aim is to produce something that cannot be distinguished from an image of a real person.

Bubblecar said:

It’s just photos made from bits and pieces of other photos, nothing revolutionary.

That’s what I thought.

fairly much every face a person holds in memory, or might generate in imagination, is made up

doubtful there’s any reason the think faces are as they appear, outside that above, they’re probably no more an impression than the sensation of the color red

Donald Rump does not exist.

He’s just CGI.

transition said:

fairly much every face a person holds in memory, or might generate in imagination, is made up

doubtful there’s any reason the think faces are as they appear, outside that above, they’re probably no more an impression than the sensation of the color red

or maybe that should be writ no less an impression, whatever, make it up

Every face in the world is already a composite of other faces, so it’s not surprising that it’s a reliable technique.

Bubblecar said:

Every face in the world is already a composite of other faces, so it’s not surprising that it’s a reliable technique.

humans are very receptive to faces (as other species are, i’m sure), clearly there’s a bunch of active wetware working on it all the time, looking for it, looking for faces, you can be laying in bed and see faces in all sorts, in the curtains, wherever, look up at the clouds and find them

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Every face in the world is already a composite of other faces, so it’s not surprising that it’s a reliable technique.

humans are very receptive to faces (as other species are, i’m sure), clearly there’s a bunch of active wetware working on it all the time, looking for it, looking for faces, you can be laying in bed and see faces in all sorts, in the curtains, wherever, look up at the clouds and find them

I see faces in fingernails, which is odd because they don’t look anything like faces.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Every face in the world is already a composite of other faces, so it’s not surprising that it’s a reliable technique.

humans are very receptive to faces (as other species are, i’m sure), clearly there’s a bunch of active wetware working on it all the time, looking for it, looking for faces, you can be laying in bed and see faces in all sorts, in the curtains, wherever, look up at the clouds and find them

I see faces in fingernails, which is odd because they don’t look anything like faces.

Pencils too, sometimes. I’ll hold up the end of a pencil and think “That’s a dead ringer for wotsisname”.

mollwollfumble said:

I’m impressed. It looks to me like they’ve overcome the uncanny valley.

KJW said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m impressed. It looks to me like they’ve overcome the uncanny valley.

And made a hengy man?

Peak Warming Man said:

KJW said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m impressed. It looks to me like they’ve overcome the uncanny valley.

And made a hengy man?

idgi

Michael V said:

Peak Warming Man said:

KJW said:

I’m impressed. It looks to me like they’ve overcome the uncanny valley.

And made a hengy man?

idgi

Yeah a bit obscure.
There used to be a poster on the old SSSF called The Uncanny Hengy Man or something like that.

Peak Warming Man said:

Michael V said:

Peak Warming Man said:

And made a hengy man?

idgi

Yeah a bit obscure.
There used to be a poster on the old SSSF called The Uncanny Hengy Man or something like that.

Ta.

KJW said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’m impressed. It looks to me like they’ve overcome the uncanny valley.

Almost.

The ones I’ve posted here have overcome the uncanny valley, but some of the faces generated this way, perhaps as many as 50% on https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (a new face on each refresh) still give me the creeps.

mollwollfumble said:

https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (a new face on each refresh)

It’s quite a diverse group of people, including racially diverse. The people aren’t necessarily very attractive, but neither are real people.

mollwollfumble said:

perhaps as many as 50% still give me the creeps.

It seems to me that for many of the images, the eyes don’t quite fit the face.

KJW said:

mollwollfumble said:

https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (a new face on each refresh)

It’s quite a diverse group of people, including racially diverse. The people aren’t necessarily very attractive, but neither are real people.

mollwollfumble said:

perhaps as many as 50% still give me the creeps.

It seems to me that for many of the images, the eyes don’t quite fit the face.

For direct front on shots the ears are all wrong.

I have noticed that when there is a second person in the image, that person will be quite deformed.