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I don't want to go all SJW on you guys, amazing work, but can you try to make sure there's an inclusive array of starting faces please? Talking about things like skin tones, thanks!
Honestly asking, isn't this stuff usually Japanese characters? I dunno if theres even "data" they could use for other skin tones
I made a waifu, then I pressed save. It wanted me to signup so I pressed back so I could just rightclick saveas but... I lost my waifu forever now :(
This is extremely impressive. It’s the first GAN I have seen which lets you tweak the result in a meaningful way rather than being just random. I think the speed that GANs have come in to the world has really shaken people up and it’s hard to process what this all means and what it will result in. Especially the ones which generate based on real people. But the feeling this gives me, is what happens for the future of…
We have been here before, and we certainly will again. It was not so long ago computers bet humans at chess, yet people still play.
For art it feels a bit different since it’s not competitive and more a practicality thing. Perhaps art will shift from placing individual strokes on an image and move to making creative directions for AI to resolve in to an image or enable more people to create labor intensive works like animation.
This is extremely impressive. It’s the first GAN I have seen which lets you tweak the result in a meaningful way rather than being just random. I think the speed that GANs have come in to the world has really shaken people up and it’s hard to process what this all means and what it will result in. Especially the ones which generate based on real people. But the feeling this gives me, is what happens for the future of…
We have been here before, and we certainly will again. It was not so long ago computers bet humans at chess, yet people still play.
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Honestly asking, isn't this stuff usually Japanese characters? I dunno if theres even "data" they could use for other skin tones
On the other hand, you get a full spectrum of eye and hair colour.
This is extremely impressive. It’s the first GAN I have seen which lets you tweak the result in a meaningful way rather than being just random. I think the speed that GANs have come in to the world has really shaken people up and it’s hard to process what this all means and what it will result in. Especially the ones which generate based on real people. But the feeling this gives me, is what happens for the future of…
This is sort of the same thing on steroids. You can copy/remix previous art by feeding them into a ML model in training mode, and it will be massively utilized the same way ctrl-c ctrl-v is used, but it's a part of the toolset of art creation, not replacing it.
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I LOVE that "horror". Reminds me of some of the art I've seen on album/single covers. Any chance of letting people access that kind of intermediate step? (Though I know it's a niche as hell use case).
Ah yes, the fine line between charming anime character and lovecraftian horror There was such popular demand for these "horror" images that we made them part of the generation in V2! If you refresh enough on the webpage, you can find some horrors!
https://i.imgur.com/1V1wPMC.jpg
I rolled around 40 times on the first stage and chose a horror. I skipped the second stage and didn't roll on the third stage, just chose one of the presented details. I skipped the fourth stage because I rolled maybe ~200 times and only saw around 1-2 comparable horrors.
https://i.imgur.com/1vBeg1j.jpg
I rolled around 100 times on the first stage and saw about 3-4 horrors before choosing a horror. I rolled about 70 times on the second stage, didn't find anything interesting, just chose a normal color palette. I rolled maybe 80 times on the third stage and chose a horror, though the results were pretty consistently horrors. I rolled around 60 times on the fourth stage and saw about 1-2 other horrors before choosing a horror. Also, here's what it looked like after the third stage and before finishing the fourth stage:
https://i.imgur.com/ditm8nF.jpg
It's possible the third and fourth stages can produce horrors from normal faces, I didn't check.
Do you have a team page? How many of you are there? Do you work with gwern and nearcyan? Are you going to raise for this? (You should totally scale this!)
Great work, and keep it up!
This is extremely impressive. It’s the first GAN I have seen which lets you tweak the result in a meaningful way rather than being just random. I think the speed that GANs have come in to the world has really shaken people up and it’s hard to process what this all means and what it will result in. Especially the ones which generate based on real people. But the feeling this gives me, is what happens for the future of…
Though, the conclusion I've come to is that that hand-drawn art will always meaningful for humans, because it is born of the human experience.
An interesting example is the invention of photography, which at its time, was very good at doing the thing artists were doing back then (capturing likenesses)
But photography didn't replace art: instead, artists now use photographs to be more expressive, convincing, and make better art. In tandem, the widespread adoption of photography meant that more average folks could get their likenesses taken!
Personally, my skills as an artist has improved by quite a bit, after launching this product, purely because observing it offers some fascinating insights into how anime is created!
I hope that as an industry, we'll find better ways to create, and what we know to be the "best" art today will be even better in the future!
