It’s fascinating how in the 80s and 90s we imagined virtual worlds being populated by 3D graphics built on modeled / digitized wireframes — and then this technology comes out of nowhere in the past decade. The holodeck seemed so implausible in its ability to just synthesize things. Doesn’t seem so implausible anymore. “Computer: Sherlock Holmes, in his study, speaking with Albert Einstein.”
AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist
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#62While 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…
Another vote for agree and disagree. Take for example Japan - the land of anime girls on every piece of advertising. How much would the demand for human models expand if illustrated characters were not an alternative? There's a scarcity in the type of human beauty that's sought after by the fashion industry. What if that scarcity didn't exist? If people grow up with this new economic model of beauty and scarcity, may…
I will say the demographic deeply into fashion and those familiar with anime girls doesn't feel like it overlaps too much -- yet.
That said, one recent interesting development I saw is VRoid Wear, a collaboration between fashion brands and an anime-style 3D avatar creation tool. The brand Chloma is releasing the same apparel for avatars and real people simultaneously. The avatar-wear is not a mere promotional giveaway for the physical-wear: both are treated equally as products for sale, as they are selling the model data and textures for the former at around $50. (The physical version goes at something closer to $500, but still.) https://hub.vroid.com/wear/chloma
Re: AI tech generates entire bodies of people who don't exist
#63While 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…
If this was true, why is photoshop a thing?
You don't have anything to backup your assertion (or even have the possibility of evidence, before what you are assertion is what's in the mind of people).
When I browse through a fashion magazine, most models are unknown to me, they might as well be AI-gen.
The people that you know that tries to sell you cloth comprise a small fraction of people-images that you are exposed to.
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#64They can use this technology to generate a model to fit a particular user profile. Filter bubbles are going to get even better! Or maybe they can ask user to upload his photo and feed that as a prior to the model so it can generate visuals of that person wearing different dresses. That would be cool!
That would be neat. Imagine going to a site, adding some photos of yourself and seeing all the clothes as they would look on you based on your actual dimensions. You'd never have to wonder if something would look good on you. I imagine this would save a ton of shipping costs on returns.
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#65would 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.
Wow, I would have never guessed their catalog is made up of 3D renders.
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#66This is useful to generate models for clothing shop, or new fashion models. More general: I'm not surprised to see some day, one AI bot could automatically register a Twitter account, and have "real" conversations there. One day, i might retweet their tweets, too.
Some day more and more movies will have virtual actors, possibly licensing physical/voice tracts from known stars of the past. I would expect also virtual music bands to be created as such.
Or maybe they'll sort through all of the publicly available voice data for any actor and start talking and sounding exactly like them. No need for any actors.
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#67This would have marketing value if the network could somehow generate the person wearing a particular clothing.
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#68I'm sure this could have applications in porn as well. Want to cater to someone's specific kink? Just generate it.
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#69Super interesting. How soon does this tech become the next 6-7 figure instagram start? Curious if anyone can take this soon to build a following around a fake beautiful person doing fake interesting things.
They are not something new, they've been in the news in the last 5 years. I'm talking about GANs. Their 'father' Ian Goodfellow, has been recently poached by Apple from Google. Even NVIDIA is into GANs [1]. Thousands of papers have been written on the topic [2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOxxPcy5Gr4&t=56s
[2] http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/search?q=generative+adversarial+...
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#70I'm sure this could have applications in porn as well. Want to cater to someone's specific kink? Just generate it.
I do wonder if we'll ever reach a liberal enough society to be OK with machine-generated porn of all types, especially those taboo or illegal now (child pornography, sadism, zoophilia, etc). I could foresee it being banned before it even gets commercialized, which in my opinion would be unfortunate because I could see it as the methadone of porn to the "real stuff's" heroin.