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Anyone else get the sense this is more of a Mad-Libs style fill-in as opposed to the sort of AI-generated content found in other thisXdoesnotexist sites?
by dooglius 8y ago
Anyone else get the sense this is more of a Mad-Libs style fill-in as opposed to the sort of AI-generated content found in other thisXdoesnotexist sites?
- tenaciousDaniel 8y agoYeah. Oddly enough, this should be the easiest variation on the this-does-not-exist idea, but it's the least believable. If I didn't know it was an experiment, I'd think it was a bot-driven ad-fraud popup site or something.
- nkozyra 8y agoClearly. The images are all just stock "...male-105.png," the page format is exactly the same. It's cute but less interesting than, say, thisdoesnotexist.
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- gwern 8y agoAs author of 'This Waifu Does Not Exist' https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ (which does use StyleGAN+GPT-2-small, with even better anime-finetuned GPT-2-small samples coming tomorrow or so), I feel a little insulted that the 'X Does Not Exist' brand is being diluted by Mad-Libs-style efforts. The snowclone exists to show off neural net work specifically, not just any old aleatorics.
- gowld 8y agoFake tricks, in my AI/ML offering? It's more likely then you think.
- apollopower 8y agoThats understandable. Where "This Waifu Does Not Exist" serves as a demonstration of GANs, "This Startup Does Not Exist" is more of a satirical jab on how "disruptive" startup endeavors are really generic efforts that don't amount to anything
- Aeolun 8y agoIs this really as impressive as I think it is, or is it more or less recoloring different images?
- gwern 8y agoThat's getting into hard to answer territory: do humans 'more or less recolor different images' when they do art, too? Many people use tracing, copy elements, imitate other artists' styles, and so on. No one learns anime art in a void. All culture is remix. And this is true of writing, as well. Consider Gene Wolfe's "The Just Man" ( https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/1983-wolfe-thecitadeloftheautarch-thejustman https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/1983-wolfe-thecitadelofth... ): > From this story, though it was the shortest and the most simple too of all those I have recorded in this book, I feel that I learned several things of some importance. First of all, how much of our speech, which we think freshly minted in our own mouths, consists of set locutions. The Ascian seemed to speak only in sentences he had learned by rote, though until he used each for the first time we had never heard them. Foila seemed to speak as women commonly do, and if I had been asked whether she employed such tags, I would have said that she did not---but how often one might have predicted the ends of her sentences from their beginnings. You could look through the various sets of samples and the more extreme psi examples and the interpolation videos and perhaps get a better idea of the extent to which the StyleGAN 'understands' faces and is being creative: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1093701790971953152 https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1093701790971953152
- catbird 8y agoWould it make sense to compare the output images to their nearest neighbors in the training set in order to establish some metric of "originality"? Sorry if that is a basic question, I haven't read much on image synthesis with neural nets.
- gwern 8y agoYes, and they don't usually look too much alike (see the BigGAN appendix nearest-neighbors for example of doing this) but some people argue this isn't a good enough check because the GAN could just be shuffling around patches of textures or something, which is a little goal-post-move-y for my taste.
- aboutruby 8y agoReminds me more of Faker: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js https://github.com/marak/Faker.js
- smudgymcscmudge 8y agoIt’s fitting for a fake startup generator to use fake ai. Most of these fictional startups would probably be faking their ai as well.