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

Posted by msmash on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:21AM 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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Obvious stock image input by spaceyhackerlady · 2019-02-14 09:19 · Score: 4, Informative

It's obvious the neural network was trained on stock images, including lots of celebrities. I saw Angelina Jolie's eyes, Brad Pitt's jaw, Caitlin Jenner's hair.
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