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Unified GAN for Image-to-Image translation

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Re: Unified GAN for Image-to-Image translation

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Well, this is horrifying. Thank you. Now everyone that has one photo of me to match against now has several of them.

Well, no, you can't create information that doesn't exist. They don't have any better source to match against your blonde-hair picture than their imagination. The novelty here is that they may outsource that imagination to the machine now.

Re: Unified GAN for Image-to-Image translation

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Well, this is horrifying. Thank you. Now everyone that has one photo of me to match against now has several of them.

Well, no, you can't create information that doesn't exist. They don't have any better source to match against your blonde-hair picture than their imagination. The novelty here is that they may outsource that imagination to the machine now.

Is this useful for simulated celebrity and fanfiction porn yet? Would be very interested in that PoC.

Re: Unified GAN for Image-to-Image translation

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Well, this is horrifying. Thank you. Now everyone that has one photo of me to match against now has several of them.

The article doesn't point this out, but in GANs, the parameters actually move on a continuous range. In other words, they don't just have several of your pictures, they've got all sorts of movies :

A movie where your face starts out "neutral" and becomes angry. A movie where you start out angry, go to surprised and end happy. And so on.

Excellent progress, I must say.

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