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'This Person Does Not Exist' Website Uses AI To Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces (inverse.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

A website that uses AI -- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) -- to generate photos of people who do not exist is circulating on social media and forums this week. A news writeup adds: Every time the site is refreshed, a shockingly realistic -- but totally fake --picture of a person's face appears. Uber software engineer Phillip Wang created the page to demonstrate what GANs are capable of, and then posted it to the public Facebook group "Artificial Intelligence & Deep Learning" on Tuesday. The underlying code that made this possible, titled StyleGAN, was written by Nvidia and featured in a paper that has yet to be peer-reviewed. This exact type of neural network has the potential to revolutionize video game and 3D-modeling technology, but, as with almost any kind of technology, it could also be used for more sinister purposes.

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  1. Should I be concerned? by Nidi62 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I pulled up the website and the picture looked a lot like me.....

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    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
    1. Re:Should I be concerned? by Red_Forman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude, calm the fuck down a bit. We know it's not a drill. It's a screwdriver.