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A few years ago, I interviewed at StockX, and the team was working on exactly this – using GANs to generate pictures of shoes. Interesting to see essentially the same thing here a few years later.
I did this first https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/AIREGAN
Even though these are just shoes, there is something really freaky about images generated in this way. Makes me feel really uneasy.
Wow, I think this would be pretty useful as a shopping guide in an online shop: Let the user pick a few models they like and render more items based on the chosen ones. Present actual sneakers you have in stock at the last step.
Yeah, I love it when stores lure me in with products that I want, and then only have products that I don't want. I never rage-quit the store when that happens; I only ever buy dregs that they have in stock. I would love spending hours at a store browsing imaginary products that I can't buy; engagement is a perfect metric to predict profitability and the world needs a lot more than that.
All that said... if you change the contract a bit, it could work. Kinda like groupon, but people can browse AI-generated shoes and the most popular ones enter a tournament, and the winning design gets made for purchase. That could be pretty cool.
The page doesn’t load for me. I couldn’t find any related page or repository. I assume this is similar to “this person does not exist” [1]. Other than that, does anyone have more context? [1]: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
A few years ago, I interviewed at StockX, and the team was working on exactly this – using GANs to generate pictures of shoes. Interesting to see essentially the same thing here a few years later.
Always interesting to see just how far ahead you/some project was - or wasn't.
who knew we would replace the shoe designers with automation before we replaced the sweatshops that produce them with automation.
A simple example in visual effects are "artist guided tools". Instead of having a team of artists place and guide every virtual hair, you have a single artist draw a curve for the hair to follow, and the computer figures out the rest. There are dozens of examples like this in the world right now.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The usefulness of any of this generated stuff eludes me.
It depends on your definition of "useful." If you look at a single GAN-generated image in isolation it's almost certainly "useless" for most definitions. But if you need a bunch of faces, sneakers, buildings, whatever, and you want to be cognizant of people's privacy, and you don't mind the occasional weird image artifact or completely fake-looking image, these can be good alternatives to sourcing a large number of r…
Now the question is, since the training material were images of copyrighted designs/shoes could this get me in trouble?
I feel like there are many cool uses for generated stuff such as generated music or generated code also, but ultimately the uses are held back by existing laws and regulations around copyright and so on. So it really doesn't solve anything that also wouldn't be solved by just getting rid of copyrights entirely.. (sorry, just thinking "out loud")
Somewhat related: https://imgflip.com/ai-meme "This meme does not exist". Definitely good for a few minutes messing around while you have your morning coffee/tea/beverage of personal choice.
I guess it's just lightly trained with the captions users have submitted for each image. It's a random meme generator that didn't even need AI if this was the intended end product.
Maybe it being crappy is actually the joke and I'm missing it.
New Balance logo https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.com/editor/?seed=1346