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'This Person Does Not Exist' Website Uses AI To Create Realistic Yet Horrifying Faces (inverse.com)
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.
I pulled up the website and the picture looked a lot like me.....
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Bet you've not heard that term in a while!
The site for me is loading the image slower than an 80's fax-modem set to highest resolution.
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A friend who lives in a repressive country where over 90% of the media is pro-government propaganda told me that the when he does a reverse image-search of the little "author image" next to the opinion pieces lauding the government's actions, neither Google nor Tineye can find the person online. It seems that the opinion pieces are authored by supposed "journalists" who's face can only be found next to the opinion piece - and nowhere else online. The authors names and their face images are fictional, even though their faces appear to belong to a real person. It seems like this tech was around before Nvidia supposedly "pioneered" it.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
I can remember dabbling with fractals as a basis for creating artificial landscapes back in the 80's. (And no, it wasn't my lawn which you can kindly depart from.)
It's interesting to see the level of detail, and the types of asymmetries and other 'imperfections' . It'd also be interesting to determine statistical probabilities of a reasonably close match to an actual person.
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It's not 100% realistic yet. The faces look good, but with the hair and body there are a lot of issues. I pulled up one picture and the face is a significantly lighter tone than the neck/chest area which leads to issue number 2, the woman does not appear to have a neck. The ears are just close enough to realistic to notice they aren't right, and the hair coming down over the body isn't correct either. But the facial features are really good.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
It was probably running the GAN on a single GeForce GTX 1080 and we burnt it out. Hope it didn't burn anything else with it!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Someone should write a bot to post each new photo to Facebook (along with a randomly generated name) to salt their facial recognition algorithm.
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Some of the pics have noticeable artifacts that give the appearance of a severe scar... or possibly gills in some cases.
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Thank you. I was thinking someone snuck decaf into my cup.
As it is, the created faces just look like random people to me. There is nothing "horrifying" about it.
Generate the rest of their bodies as well and we'll finally have a replacement for Tumblr!
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
I didn't know the industry needed up'ending, but this could forever change "Big Hero-shot".
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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They all have nearly perfect teeth. And the shape of the two front teeth is really similar between all people that show their teeth. I don't think these are real people...
What if you see one of the images and fall in love with the person in it? They don't exist, but you can't get the idea of them out of your mind and you are ruined. Forever.
That would be a nightmare.
Some of those faces can be instantly identified as fakes. Some have eyes that are beyond uncanny valley and down right hideous.
Others... well I saw at least 2 images where I couldn't find a fault despite looking for many minutes.
I appreciate the “it’s all been done before” sentiment, and I too remember when that Jackson morphing video came out.
However, the technique used in the new article is really different. If you want to simplify it to simple concepts, the Jackson jethod is interpolation between two endpoints (in the space of all possible real faces), whereas the current method is to progressively generate images and refine them based on whether they are face-like.
They can make all the fake profiles they want. reference
That book with four separate sets of pages, so you could choose the hair, eyes, nose and mouth to make hilarious combinations.
Good times.
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Ah, I remember the good old days of "Morph+" on the Amiga... when this was new & cool. But the effect dropped astonishingly quick out of fashion.
I looked at some of the pics. Either the pictures are real, or they're composites of real people. There's too much background detail. The reflections in eyeglasses show content. Almost every pic had some easily identifiable artifact like a smudge, a paperclip growing out of the top of someone's head, or the temple from a pair of eyeglasses just hanging out without the rest of the glasses.
For me to buy into this, just get the semi-fake person to start sending tweets with the AI-driven fake tweetbot.
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There were several of the women I'd like to see more of, if you know what I mean.
Strictly for research purposes of course!
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The real magic isnt that it is able to create new faces, but in fact, how it is able to more accurately blend the individual real-world body parts (ie, the eyes, hair, mouth, wrinkles all come from real-world examples) in the scene by understanding the correct lighting and textures. We have been able to randomly generate non-existent faces for decades, but doing so, so the parts blend well has always been the hard part. It's a Face-Time filter applying more passes. I still fail to understand why the buzzword: AI needs to be linked to this besides as a way to garner more interest and funding.
Most of those are probably they same few of you who seem to have an unhealthy obsession with the guy. Seek professional help.
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It seems to create weird artifacts around the edges of hair and ears.
No sig. Move along - nothing to see here.
I got a better name for the service. I guess you can't trust anybody on the Internet (anymore).
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