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AI real-time human full-body photo generator

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Re: AI real-time human full-body photo generator

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If you're wondering how it's so fast and cheap and they can generate variants so easily, it's because they're using GANs (see the footer). GANs are way faster than diffusion models because they generate the image in a single forward pass and their true latent space encoding makes editing a breeze. (And if you're wondering how it can look so good when 'everyone knows GANs don't work because they're too unstable', a wi…

I’ll take this opportunity to mention our research scaling StyleGAN 2 to larger datasets (using LAION) on food images, leveraging free TPU compute through the TRC program.

We trained for 36 days on a v4-8 on 558k images.

https://nyx-ai.github.io/stylegan2-flax-tpu/

We were hopeful GANs would beat diffusion models when trained on specific domains. But we’ve now switched to Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth training which has proven more much efficient for this purpose.

I still have hopes for GANs! I miss their insane inference speed.

Re: AI real-time human full-body photo generator

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I know that currently AI is the hot topic, but if you want to generate pictures of well-known objects like humans, why not just render a 3D model of a human? Something like Poser (the software) is way more efficient than any GAN or diffusion model. But Poser is 28 years old now, I guess it doesn't attract sweet VC money.

This exists! https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman

That is truly impressive.

In my mind, it would be smarter to use the AI to tune the 3D model, and then let a rendering algorithm like this generate the final image.

Re: AI real-time human full-body photo generator

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Looking at the poses, it feels optimized for generating porn, but one example someone showed had a child's face (good god please don't let your "AI" system generate child anything if you want to sell it for porn purposes), and another user noted that their attempt error'd out because it "detected nudity", even though other users get given a nude model by default.

> it feels optimized for porn So I was relatively unimpressed with the first few images, they looked incredibly unrealistic. But then after reading this message i decided to add "topless" to the notes just to see how crazy the result was. I was actually impressed, it returned an image that actually looks lifelike once I gave it an adult request. Which reinforces the idea that this was optimized for porn. For those cu…

I tweaked yours a little.

[NSFW] https://generated.photos/human-generator/64e7e1aee4125d000cd...

And then I requested a full bush...

[NSFW] https://generated.photos/human-generator/64e7e47ff56326000b9...

Re: AI real-time human full-body photo generator

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It completely ignores details in the "add something" box. I asked for gray trousers, it gave blue jeans. I told it doc martin boots, it continued showing white sneakers. I told it "burgundy sweater", it produced a sweater at least, but pink.

In short, as a tool for an art director or illustrator trying to avoid the expense of a model or a photo shoot, it's fuckin' useless.

Re: AI real-time human full-body photo generator

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>it would be so easy to destroy someone's career or relationship by making these deepfakes and then spreading them around. Only because this tech isn't yet well known. People will just correctly learn to not trust anything they see online.

The average IQ doesn't allow for that.

When it's on TV and people are aware it will sink in.

It's only Voice cloning that really scares me.

Re: AI real-time human full-body photo generator

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Doxxing refers to private individuals not companies and organizations. In Germany for example every commercial website (which is defined very broadly and applies to most websites) is by law required to have an imprint listing the person/org responsible for the website and how to contact them (an e-mail address is not good enoguh). This means you can go to any German business website and get the full address, EU VAT I…

Call it sitedoxxing then or urldoxxing. It's the same attack, to deanonymize, to hunt people down from the internet because you don't like what they say or do. Germany is the only country in the world with that Impresseum policy because of it's highly leagalistic Prussian background, and you would find that many in the hacking community (e.g. CCC) take huge issue with it

The hacking community takes issue with it because it is overly broad and applies to sites any reasonable person would consider personal and non-commercial. The infamous precedent were early 2000s era personal homepages with banner ads on them to pay for the hosting. The presence of ads made them commercial and thus subject to the Impressumspflicht.

The CCC has a strong anarchist tendency unlike the US tech bubble which has a more libertarian (i.e. free enterprise) streak. They absolutely do not want companies to hide from accountability, which completely abolishing the Impressumspflicht would do.

Also note how I said the GDPR also requires transparency with regard to who processes and stores your data. This doesn't translate to the same requirements that exist for an Impressum but for companies and registered organizations it's enough to make them identifiable and recognizable, especially in combination with the Transparency Register, which is also part of EU law.

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