thispersondoesnotexist.com

submitted by trident765 from (self.skeptics)

I have been looking into current AI capabilities and I am finding that a lot of it is basically fake. That is, you watch a demo and it looks like AI is extremely advanced, but when you try it out yourself it is nothing like the demo. Even GPT-3 is no where near as advanced as the demo makes it out to be. Also, a text to image engine I tried struggles with one word requests, let alone complete sentences - it is totally useless.

But one AI stands out as being particularly impressive, even when I try it out myself, and that is this:

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Seeing the bad quality of the other AIs makes me wonder: Are these photos really completely AI-generated? How "original" are these images? Are there images that are very similar to the generated images in the training data? Are the artifacts in some of these images just there for show?

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[–]Tiwaking 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

This would be really useful for generating some non-existent business partners for a fake company

[–]Zapped 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Looks like it sometimes has trouble with eyeglasses. Also, if anyone else is in the photo, they come out as a mutant. I refreshed enough to come back around to a photo I had seen earlier in the round. She had the same hairstyle, but a different face.

[–]trident765[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

It appears to be real:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Style-Mixing-with-StyleGAN2-Truncation-ps-05_fig1_348487125/amp

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Not sure if that A.I. is racist.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

sure this isn't her?

[–]Optimus85 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

This one's my favorite.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Are those teeth in his collar?

[–]Optimus85 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yikes!!!

[–]zyxzevn 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

AI is just like statistics.
With some help AI can determine the important features in the data.
Usually expressed in vectors (or matrices or Tensors). Using vectors for ease.
Using these vectors , the AI can recognize one of these feature by looking
for the vectors that is closest to the data.
And in reverse it can generate data by combining random vectors.

In research, they found out that good statistics is generally better than AI.
Namely, with good statistics you can work more on the vectors that you are using.
Whereas AI can just make up random vectors that make no sense, just because it fits the dataset.