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Show HN: This Meme Does Not Exist

18 points by dylanwenzlau 7y ago

adnanazadsg 7y ago
I dont understand this, but I like it :) - Is the name a play on thispersondoesnotexist.com ?
- dylanwenzlau 7y ago
  Yea, seemed like "this [neural net generated thing] does not exist" was itself becoming a meme, so of course I had to participate!
dylanwenzlau 7y ago
Shortcut link to the accompanying article about building the conv net: https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-deep-convolutional-network-in-keras-tensorflow-a57c6f218e85?source=friends_link&sk=f1b3ce96508c251dbdf4e8e48ceba43d https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...
- speeq 7y ago
  I noticed that imgflip is using Cloudflare. Just curious - if you're willing to share this information - what are your traffic levels and hosting costs like? Does hosting a large percentage of static asset require a Cloudflare enterprise contract? Cheers
  - dylanwenzlau 7y ago
    When Imgflip moved to Cloudflare they did require an enterprise contract if we would use Cloudflare as a CDN (lots of static assets, in our case .jpg and .gif). The contract was a constant price per month as opposed to per-GB like classic CDNs. It's possible contracts are different now though Imgflip has been there a while.
nautical 7y ago
TBH, I tried for couple of minutes and got nothing meaningful.
- Vaskivo 7y ago
  Yet some were so surreal and nonsense that actually made me laugh!
- rspeele 7y ago
  I actually really like some of them, trying the different formats. They subvert my expectations. https://imgflip.com/i/2zdiup https://imgflip.com/i/2zdiup https://imgflip.com/i/2zdj93 https://imgflip.com/i/2zdj93 https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjtg https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjtg https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjvn https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjvn They remind me of the anti-joke Louis CK's daughter came up with: > > Who didn't let the Gorilla into the ballet? > Just the people who are in charge of that decision.
- muzani 7y ago
  I think AI is good for things like photos, where there's a lot of tolerance for minor errors. And really bad for anything with text, where there's very low error tolerance. Even a misplaced aprostrophe triggers a reaction from people. A few extra moles on a person's face, or crooked smile is fine.
crazygorilla 7y ago
It is nonsense but it made me laugh :) I see potential in nonsense memes!
reijndael 7y ago
I think the text would make much more sense if this was a word-level prediction instead of character-level. Anyway it's still great and made me laugh :)
MattBearman 7y ago
First one I got was pretty good - https://imgflip.com/i/2zgtp8 https://imgflip.com/i/2zgtp8 After that it was all gibberish :/

18 points by dylanwenzlau 7y ago

adnanazadsg 7y ago

I dont understand this, but I like it :) - Is the name a play on thispersondoesnotexist.com ?

dylanwenzlau 7y ago
Yea, seemed like "this [neural net generated thing] does not exist" was itself becoming a meme, so of course I had to participate!

dylanwenzlau 7y ago

Shortcut link to the accompanying article about building the conv net: https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-deep-convolutional-network-in-keras-tensorflow-a57c6f218e85?source=friends_link&sk=f1b3ce96508c251dbdf4e8e48ceba43d https://towardsdatascience.com/meme-text-generation-with-a-d...

speeq 7y ago
I noticed that imgflip is using Cloudflare. Just curious - if you're willing to share this information - what are your traffic levels and hosting costs like? Does hosting a large percentage of static asset require a Cloudflare enterprise contract? Cheers
- dylanwenzlau 7y ago
  When Imgflip moved to Cloudflare they did require an enterprise contract if we would use Cloudflare as a CDN (lots of static assets, in our case .jpg and .gif). The contract was a constant price per month as opposed to per-GB like classic CDNs. It's possible contracts are different now though Imgflip has been there a while.

nautical 7y ago

TBH, I tried for couple of minutes and got nothing meaningful.

Vaskivo 7y ago
Yet some were so surreal and nonsense that actually made me laugh!
rspeele 7y ago
I actually really like some of them, trying the different formats. They subvert my expectations. https://imgflip.com/i/2zdiup https://imgflip.com/i/2zdiup https://imgflip.com/i/2zdj93 https://imgflip.com/i/2zdj93 https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjtg https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjtg https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjvn https://imgflip.com/i/2zdjvn They remind me of the anti-joke Louis CK's daughter came up with: > > Who didn't let the Gorilla into the ballet? > Just the people who are in charge of that decision.
muzani 7y ago
I think AI is good for things like photos, where there's a lot of tolerance for minor errors. And really bad for anything with text, where there's very low error tolerance. Even a misplaced aprostrophe triggers a reaction from people. A few extra moles on a person's face, or crooked smile is fine.

crazygorilla 7y ago

It is nonsense but it made me laugh :) I see potential in nonsense memes!

reijndael 7y ago

I think the text would make much more sense if this was a word-level prediction instead of character-level. Anyway it's still great and made me laugh :)

MattBearman 7y ago

First one I got was pretty good - https://imgflip.com/i/2zgtp8 https://imgflip.com/i/2zgtp8 After that it was all gibberish :/