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Re: AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist

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Post by jonfw »

Para2016 wrote: post #9
keenmaster wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. If you're Gap and have a lineup with thousands of articles of clothing, why would you go through the trouble of procuring models? You have to deal with modeling agencies, photographers, set managers, etc... When the AI gets good enough, it will be even better than the alternative. It will serve ads showing only your body type. Maybe the models will even have....your face.

That would be great. You don't need a floor length mirror and changing rooms if you can just have your rendered body and face to exchange clothes on. Need to get accurate measurements for the right dimensions though.

This leads to more very cool stuff.

3D body scanning to get a representation of your body. Than use software to automatically generate and cut clothing patterns to get the exact fit you're looking for. TNow all that's left is stiching, which would be fairly difficult to automate when patterns are variable so would still be a significant cost point for custom clothing.

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Post by satori99 »

acconrad wrote: post #4

would this mean that outside of runway models, you wouldn't need models to showcase your clothing anymore since you can just "wrap" your clothes over these AI humans?

Ikea does this for furniture already;

https://www.cadcrowd.com/blog/why-ikea-uses-3d-renders-vs-ph...

Doing it for clothes on humans seems like a reasonable next-step.

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Post by taneq »

mc32 wrote: post #25
acconrad wrote: post #4

would this mean that outside of runway models, you wouldn't need models to showcase your clothing anymore since you can just "wrap" your clothes over these AI humans?

Somehow they'll have to find a way around lookalikes. A real human who believes the rendering is actually their image and likeness. So they'll have to have a way to prove that there was no "contamination". Funny enough, there was a case[1] of a real person thinking a model on a website was him but it turned out the image was that of an altogether different person that just looked like them, uncannily. For illustratio…

I imagine they'd have to have a curating pass that cross-checks the generated models against public figures. For the less famous, as with your example, people are just going to have to get used to the fact that their appearance isn't necessarily unique and that they don't own the appearance of other people (real or fictional) who coincidentally look like them.

Re: AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist

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Post by ada1981 »

areoform wrote: post #24

While AI models might replace catalogue models for small labels that are starting out (maybe) and for e-commerce companies (definitely). I highly doubt it that they will replace real models for large companies and fashion boutiques now or ever. Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers. The reason why I buy a dress from Hervé Leger is because I want to look like old sch…

The majority of models are for catalogs, local business, and things you’ve never heard of from people you don’t know.

There are some people who are famous, but the vast majority of working models are unknown people who will usually stay that way.

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Post by inflatableDodo »

areoform wrote: post #24

While AI models might replace catalogue models for small labels that are starting out (maybe) and for e-commerce companies (definitely). I highly doubt it that they will replace real models for large companies and fashion boutiques now or ever. Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers. The reason why I buy a dress from Hervé Leger is because I want to look like old sch…

>The reason why I buy a dress from Hervé Leger is because I want to look like old school Crawford making body-con a thing in the ‘90s

This aspect of fashion gives you narratives you can use to weave the story you tell about yourself and present to others. AI generated characters can tap into this with created narrative while constantly also posessing the supernormal stimuli currently achieved by using photoshop on real models. That coupled with the switch in the focus of mass media from films to games and I think that while real models will not die away, digital models will not just be used in catalogue settings. I wouldn't be surprised if 2-D from the Gorillaz became the model for a clothing brand for instance, so it isn't even a question of photorealism.

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Post by Nition »

Is this really generating anything new or is it essentially just morphing between existing photos that it's been trained on?

It would be interesting to take some of these GAN demos and write a utility where for each output, have it find the closest-matching training input, and see how similar it is.

Re: AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist

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Post by ada1981 »

keenmaster wrote: post #6
acconrad wrote: post #4

would this mean that outside of runway models, you wouldn't need models to showcase your clothing anymore since you can just "wrap" your clothes over these AI humans?

Exactly. If you're Gap and have a lineup with thousands of articles of clothing, why would you go through the trouble of procuring models? You have to deal with modeling agencies, photographers, set managers, etc... When the AI gets good enough, it will be even better than the alternative. It will serve ads showing only your body type. Maybe the models will even have....your face.

Models may also license their image so they don’t need to try on 1000 clothing items.

Or perhaps there will be manufactured AIs that star in films and model clothing.

Re: AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist

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Post by killjoywashere »

areoform wrote: post #24

While AI models might replace catalogue models for small labels that are starting out (maybe) and for e-commerce companies (definitely). I highly doubt it that they will replace real models for large companies and fashion boutiques now or ever. Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers. The reason why I buy a dress from Hervé Leger is because I want to look like old sch…

> social proof-of-work

The ability of the wealthy to transmit this to their heirs, the tendency of children to enter the same professions as their parents. Social proof-of-work.

How much of our life is just social proof-of-work...

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