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

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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.

Typically these animations that look like morphings are generated by auto-encoders. Contrary to automatically generated morphings, you'll notice that all intermediate person is realistic. I don't think GAN work that way (I haven't followed it last year though). My understanding is that a GAN simply tries to determine if an image is generated or authentic. I suppose they used one there. One way to do what you propose…

The intermediates are not realistic. There are many artifacts and they are obscured by the small, lossy video.

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

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Stop peddling meaningless hype. Current 3D rendering technology is lightyears ahead[1] of these AI toys and you can trivially parametrize it. Many games already do. So if you want to generate people, you already can do that while having full control, instead of some glitchy sliders. Something genuinely useful might, perhaps, be achieved by applying GANs to parameters of those 3D models to allow easier customization,…

> Stop peddling meaningless hype. Your comment has value, but your tone is unnecessarily harsh. Would you talk to a coworker like this?

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

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I’m posting this message from a local train in rural japan. The sides are plastered with ads but nowhere where i look at can i see anime girls. While i know few instances where they exist, that’s just not the reality in japan. Akihabara is as much of a japan as Silicon Valley is Usa. At certain level yes but on the other hand not at all.

I am Japanese. It was hyperbolic but not that much.

It was pretty damn hyperbolic. I seriously haven’t seen that much of an anime advertisements anywhere except near konbinis and stores related to them.

There might be an collaboration with some anime and product once in a while but from my experience (and this is an experience of an foreigner living in japan) it’s far from norm.

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

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No, Japan does not use anime girls for every piece of advertising. Have you ever set foot in the country?

I am Japanese. It was hyperbolic but not that much.

Anime is used in subculture in Japan, but on TV (except for very specific time windows) and in the streets you dont see much of it. I live in Japan btw.
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