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

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Post by whytaka »

areoform wrote: post #24

While AI models might replace catalogue models for small labels that are starting out (maybe) and for e-commerce companies (definitely). I highly doubt it that they will replace real models for large companies and fashion boutiques now or ever. Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers. The reason why I buy a dress from Hervé Leger is because I want to look like old sch…

Another vote for agree and disagree.

Take for example Japan - the land of anime girls on every piece of advertising. How much would the demand for human models expand if illustrated characters were not an alternative?

There's a scarcity in the type of human beauty that's sought after by the fashion industry. What if that scarcity didn't exist?

If people grow up with this new economic model of beauty and scarcity, maybe it would change the landscape of fashion entirely.

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

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Post by harigov »

They can use this technology to generate a model to fit a particular user profile. Filter bubbles are going to get even better! Or maybe they can ask user to upload his photo and feed that as a prior to the model so it can generate visuals of that person wearing different dresses. That would be cool!

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

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Post by kro92kfmrzz »

kro92kfmrzz wrote: post #12
keenmaster wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. If you're Gap and have a lineup with thousands of articles of clothing, why would you go through the trouble of procuring models? You have to deal with modeling agencies, photographers, set managers, etc... When the AI gets good enough, it will be even better than the alternative. It will serve ads showing only your body type. Maybe the models will even have....your face.

It could lead to more than just putting casual models out of work. Fewer stylists and designers would be needed. Let the AI generate the color patterns (sticking with Gap as an example, it might retain their chosen /size as constraints) and boom, on demand styling

Hm something got lost there. Intended to write their garment design and known sizing guide as constraints.

Basically start by changing colors around.

Until 3D printed textiles get there anyway.

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

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Post by MR4D »

areoform wrote: post #24

While AI models might replace catalogue models for small labels that are starting out (maybe) and for e-commerce companies (definitely). I highly doubt it that they will replace real models for large companies and fashion boutiques now or ever. Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers. The reason why I buy a dress from Hervé Leger is because I want to look like old sch…

>> brands will hire models to appeal to what’s most human; sexy, sexy crazy-making envy

You’re assuming that brands won’t create their own personas that drive that same result.

In fact, this has already happened - the best known one isn’t even a human - he’s a mouse, and millions of people buy t-shirts and other things with his picture on them. The company that owns him is rather large, and very good at appealing to humans with non-human characters: Disney.

This is the beginning of the end for models. Actors are next.

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

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Post by 1k »

Amazing! This pretty much enables clothing brands to generate extremely targeted ads on the fly. Models can have similar body shape, hair style, skin colour to the user. Based on past photos the advertiser can figure out preferred colours, patterns and possibly even styles.

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

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Post by Iv »

Nition wrote: post #48

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 would be to plot all the training pictures in the kernel space of the autoencoder and match the closest one to the generated picture.

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

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Post by ekianjo »

whytaka wrote: post #51
areoform wrote: post #24

While AI models might replace catalogue models for small labels that are starting out (maybe) and for e-commerce companies (definitely). I highly doubt it that they will replace real models for large companies and fashion boutiques now or ever. Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers. The reason why I buy a dress from Hervé Leger is because I want to look like old sch…

Another vote for agree and disagree. Take for example Japan - the land of anime girls on every piece of advertising. How much would the demand for human models expand if illustrated characters were not an alternative? There's a scarcity in the type of human beauty that's sought after by the fashion industry. What if that scarcity didn't exist? If people grow up with this new economic model of beauty and scarcity, may…

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