This is almost certainly an RNN, likely from the RNN-handwriting bit of work a number of years ago. I love it quite a lot, however. I believe that it has aged well into the present day. It is interesting how some algorithms do, and how some do not, these days.
Realistic computer-generated handwriting
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Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#232This is indeed a very cool demo, and runs fully client side. I have been trying to find a way to add this to my project for a while which is a client side static website. As pointed out in other comments, this is open source: https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
There is no license, so this is simply public source, not "open source".
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#233At worst, this produces better output than some university students sitting a written assessment!
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#234Not really that realistic, I toggle legibility to 0,
it's still much more legible than my handwriting.
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#235Combine this with ChatGPT and a Pen Plotter and you can offer heartfelt hand-written letters as a service. (That are neither handwritten, nor heartfelt, but people won't notice, or care.)
but people won't notice, or care. Most people, yes. A few will definitely notice and care. Faking this stuff is the fast way to get on my shit list, though I realize I'm in a minority here. I am very pro AI in general, but I am extremely anti-deception. If you send me a 'hand-written note' that really wasn't, why would I trust you about anything else?
I'd generally agree. I personally despise gifts that I receive just because the opposite party felt obligated to give me something. Even if I actively express that my wish is to not receive gifts this is often just ignored because gift giving is so deeply ingrained into our society.
However the more I think about it, I don't think that I'd be opposed to receive a card that was written with the help of an AI. Surely it's much more thoughtful of someone to input a couple of keywords that they associate with me and then pick the best one from a few generated cards, than a generic card with an even more generic phrase and picture on it.
Feels much less like deception to me and more like assisted writing.
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#236My first name contains one of the fewest used letters of the alphabet and in first position nonetheless: Xavier Let me tell you: the training data did not contain that many X to begin with :D The Xs at best look like Ts, at worst like malformed Os. Always funny to find the blind spots of some piece of tech.
I tried with a name starting with E, max legibility; except for styles 5 and 7 the rest of them looked like a t.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might as well make a scan of your actual signature and make the generator overlay the image instead.
It is trivially recognizable in PDF viewers like Adobe Reader that a signature image was pasted in (the image rectangle around the signature highlights), and can therefore be rejected as not being a genuine signature, unless you turn the whole page into an image to make it look like a scan.
Make a very high-quality noise-free image of your signature, with a transparent background. Drop it onto an equally high-quality PDF and skew it a bit. Add some toner noise to the whole image and skew the image a small bit.
I think you can make it look decent. Haven't tried it though.
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#238If anyone's interested, I think this is the github url of this project (had to dig a bit since it's not mentioned in the page): https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Great! Can someone get it to run inside the browser using WASM?
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#239There's an Ars technica article about this:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/compu...
Re: Realistic computer-generated handwriting
#240I feel like Docusign could really use something like this.