I wonder could the generated faces now be used to actually do further training? Even from scratch for other, similar GANs? Doing so might remove any privacy concerns about real world data being used to train these things (going forward)
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#182Om my book “x doesn’t exist” demonstrations are absolutely worthless if they don’t as a minimum show at least one “closest” member of the training set. You could set up a script that just randomly picked one out of 50 images of my closest family and no one would know the difference from going to it.
Except for the occasional horrible creepy deformed things seen sometimes... Or is that your family too?
The point is that you aren’t demonstrating the implied value in the generated content. Deformations and artifacts are easy to add to images. The concept here is that this is supposedly an image of someone who doesn’t exist, if what you see is just a test-set image that’s deformed or has an artifact added to make it look like it was automatically created then it’s not actually doing anything... but the point is that you have no frame of reference to judge that because you are only seeing the supposed non existing face.
So it’s only impressive is you take it for granted that it’s doing what is claimed.
It’s impressive if you assume it’s impressive.
What I’m saying is simply that if they want to claim it’s impressive you should be able to judge that based on the displayed result itself. Just include the nearest match and it’s simple as hell for everyone to judge if it actually did something cool or not.
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#184So, the specific person may not exist, but likely someone very, very similar in appearance does. I've come across people in life that I would have sworn were twins. I'm curious how combinatorically low the number of facial features need to be before people resemble one another.
Photographer Francois Brunelle has a photo series on people who look like they could be twins/related but aren't. Genetics is an odd thing. https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/me-myself-and-i-francois-br...
But those people are in fact related. If you could test their genetics, you could prove it. They have different variations on the same face that some successful ancestor of theirs once had long ago, which was conveyed to them in their own generation over hundreds of years by the inheritance of dominant genes.
You will find that people who have such similar faces also tend to think and act similarly also. Not a coincidence.
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#185It has been interesting to see images clearly generated by this service (same artefacts, same resolution) start to flood online dating apps and social media profiles. Previously, fake accounts tended to use photos which could be reverse-image-searched to detect them. Luckily, it doesn't seem that this approach can be sensibly extended to generate entire scenes, or multiple entire-body photos from different angles. Be…
There's a couple of startups programmatically generating entire new scenes using only words as the input (target use cases are movies/animations/gaming). The output quality isn't yet as high as the OP site, but we're max 18 months out from something like www.thisplacedoesnotexist.com or something like that. Edit: one such startup is https://opus.ai/
Hi, CEO of opus.ai here.
Just noticed traffic coming from ycombinator and was almost worried as we're not ready to come out just yet (~2 months away).
Thanks for the mention though (and the clicks)
phew