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Re: This Cat Does Not Exist

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They look like Star Trek transporter accidents.

That could mean a lot of things. Are you saying that they look dead, fused with another cat, drastically younger, attacked by an interdimensional monster, cloned or are the evil alternate reality version of themselves?

Fused with a human in some cases, so very much like "The Fly" sometimes: https://imgur.com/a/usixtLS

Re: This Cat Does Not Exist

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Cute idea, but about half of these have given me very weird/unrealistic results. For instance this[1] one which, while amusing as hell, isn't exactly convincing. https://i.imgur.com/g5bHmH6.png

Oh, the elusive myhological doughnut cat. Finally confirmed!

Re: This Cat Does Not Exist

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Fun fact, the toroidal cat is actually a stable gravitational configuration along with a spheroid. There are upper and lower bounds on angular momentum and mass of course, but within those bounds you can have a toroidal cat orbiting its primary! Wait, what’s a cat again?

isn't that the same type of cat physicists used to proof the buttered-cat paradox ?

Actually the buttered cat hypothesis has been proven with much less exotic cat shapes. I recall seeing a paper showing that a cat with dimension n=1 and zero rotational inertia would spontaneously begin spinning as a result of the presence of a "butter field." Of course the experimenters ran out of point cats and had to go to the store to get more syrup shortly after completing the experiment, so it has been rather difficult to replicate. However the authors assured readers they would attempt replication at the next breakfast fundraiser for the department.

Re: This Cat Does Not Exist

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I also got a few characters of would-be-text into a couple of images. As you said, the net was probably trained with images that included cat memes and it "learned" that meme-text means "cat".

Makes me wonder if it is possible for deep learning to create an artificial language. Supposedly Lojban's vocabulary was created by an algorithm, although how it got "mlatu" for cat is obscure.

Here's how Lojban's vocabulary was created: https://lojban.github.io/cll/4/14/

> At least one word was found in each of the six source languages (Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic) corresponding to the proposed gismu. This word was rendered into Lojban phonetics rather liberally: consonant clusters consisting of a stop and the corresponding fricative were simplified to just the fricative (“tc” became “c”, “dj” became “j”) and non-Lojban vowels were mapped onto Lojban ones. Furthermore, morphological endings were dropped. The same mapping rules were applied to all six languages for the sake of consistency. > ...

Re: This Cat Does Not Exist

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I think this might be a well-done satire showcasing the pitfalls of having insufficient training data. It's magnificent. Half the cats are adorable and half are, I believe, creatures from "The Thing".

They look like Star Trek transporter accidents.

Reminds me of Alien Resurrection. The other Ripleys.
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