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Free AI-generated headshots put stock photo companies on notice
- hoomank2 7y agoFYI - They are not free for commercial use per the "Terms and Condition" link even thought it says on the homepage "for any use." It is for personal use only.
- freebie-poo-poo 7y agoJust goes to show that it's extremely trivial to clean up the final product with a few passes for quality assurance. Single handedly, even. This is something one person could do on their own. And yet they didn't even bother to try. If they really intend to sell such images, it's extremely unprofessional to leave the botched examples in the mix, despite efforts to rationalize why they should be included. Based on that, I suspect it's one person acting alone, and it's a get rich quick effort to take the money and run.
- mirekrusin 7y agoIt deserves some titles: * "Let me calm my hair" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_M3CXoqlxCyo2Pdg8FTCkdCPlcZyucO6/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_M3CXoqlxCyo2Pdg8FTCkdCPlcZ... * "Do you like my beard?" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1olx8X3FlXpPdoCT5EmsjCWqWc2b5xELm/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1olx8X3FlXpPdoCT5EmsjCWqWc2b... * "What are you thinking about?" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i5KnWXm0ewpqZ6toEeYlCW0JLRTdleJ6/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i5KnWXm0ewpqZ6toEeYlCW0JLRT... * "Sticky fingers" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QtTv37P40a2e9w7Qa37XweT-v269kKB3/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QtTv37P40a2e9w7Qa37XweT-v26... * "Ear and shoulder" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MlJP4q_BLcyhYjuJudztDzUY0pvX-oYf/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MlJP4q_BLcyhYjuJudztDzUY0pv... * "My new glasses" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n2QCS_cjeMCfiEFqs2fYGgNKm0TyMJy6/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n2QCS_cjeMCfiEFqs2fYGgNKm0T... * "f* off asshole" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GaWX-n82P9LU2QMEwxmq2XEJWjRt5EL3/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GaWX-n82P9LU2QMEwxmq2XEJWjR... ...and other treasures.
- aaron695 7y agoStealing copyright material has always been easy. Monetizing it, harder but possible and risky. Using it in a business publicly very hard. Although here they have said they used their own models... I see no reason why they had to, it'd be hard to be caught and I'm not sure clear cut illegal, which original model & photographer would sue? For cleaning stolen goods GANS seem pretty good. Cleaning a whole non fiction textbook would be interesting, GAN the writting, GAN the diagrams / photos.
- im3w1l 7y agoAre these photos derivative works?
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoIn the article: > Zhabinskiy is keen to emphasize that the AI used to generate these images was trained using data shot in-house, rather than using stock media or scraping photographs from the internet. “Such an approach requires thousands of hours of labor, but in the end, it will certainly be worth it!” exclaims an Icons8 blog post.
- larodi 7y agothere's something really frightening the way they look. like Frankenstein images patched together from dozens of others.
- yummybear 7y agoSome are spot on - but most have a tiny bit of uncanny valley going on. Unmatched eye direction, wide faces or artifacts.
- chasd00 7y agomy thought too, but i'm still pretty impressed. Usually, the "uncanny valley" problem sticks out like a sore thumb but these, on average, are very good.
- jvanderbot 7y agoI used to fancy myself a starving artist (emphasis on "starving"). These pictures suffer from a common newbie-artist problem! One of the concepts of early stage drawing I noticed is "symbol drawing". This is where a person knows how an eye should look, and where an eye should go on the face, and so draws an eye on a face-shaped oval. They repeat this for the other eye, a nose, a mouth, etc. They are often sad with the results. A person who practices incorrectly will try to do photorealistic eyes, noses, mouths, etc but use the same 2D composition technique. No matter how realistically they can render components, their composition is off because they are ignoring the structure of a face that causes subtle differences in the shape of each of the components when projected onto a sheet of paper. Our mind is so capable of 3D modelling that when we look at a face we don't notice the changes in perspective leading to changes in component shape and shading. The great artist skill is to build up those 3D to 2D projections and avoid the 2D composition (except in stylistic choices). I suspect that the networks rendering these faces, and the underlying biological phenomena they are designed against, are "symbol" recognizers, rather than "structural" recognizers.
- dehrmann 7y agoI've always struggled with drawing organic 3D things, and this is probably part of why. > A person who practices incorrectly So how does one practice correctly?
- davio 7y agohttp://www.whichfaceisreal.com/learn.html http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/learn.html Little tutorial previously posted on HN teaching you how to spot the fakes. The tell is usually around the hairline for me.
- MichaelApproved 7y agoIt would be interesting to mix in real photos then have another AI try to pick out fakes from real ones. They can learn from each other.
- stestagg 7y agoApologies if you know this already, but ... That's likely exactly how these pictures were generated. Generative adversarial neural networks (the typical approach for this type of problem) have two nets that compete against each other. One net tries to generate images that look like the sample data, the other one tries to tell them apart.
- bichomx 7y agoThis is how adversarial networks work. You have a network trying to build images of humans and another one trying to guess what image is from that network and what image is real.
- MichaelApproved 7y agoI wonder how long it'll be before we see AI photos being used in fake social media accounts. The use of these specific ones would be easily detected, since the dataset is available to everyone and companies can cross-reference. However, if the program becomes commercially available, unique fakes can easily be created.
- wastedhours 7y agoWe joked at work that these are perfect for bot-farms looking to take Twitter trolling to the next level. Will be really interesting to see how these crop up in usage.
- fudged71 7y agoWhat makes you think that isn’t already happening?
- MiroF 7y agoRead an article about it, that's already happening
- atwebb 7y agoThat is already happening, AI bots are in video chat rooms as well.
- ThePadawan 7y agoThere was a post about some "Could you determine if this person is AI-generated or a stock image?" and turns out, that yes, it's very possible. Most noticeably in 3/4 of the images in the article, the subject's gaze does not work out. Their eye lines never converge.
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- sagebird 7y agoThis is about headshots, a very specific category of stock photos. I have a question about stock photos more generally: If an ai company looked at thousands of examples of commercial, copyrighted stock photos, then created an ai that would make similar stock photos, but have a method that prunes or selects generated photos that are sufficiently distant from any example as no not be obviously derivative, could they conceal their “theft” and sell their stock photos free of legal risk? More generally, can AI wash itself clean of copyright infringement by showing that it was “inspired” but not derivative? I guess a judge could compel you to reveal your training set, but at some point do you think there will be general ai that can have the argument that it only seeks “inspiration” and does not “knock off”?
- jedberg 7y agoFunny enough, the patent office has similar questions about AI: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/27/2019-18443/request-for-comments-on-patenting-artificial-intelligence-inventions https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/08/27/2019-18...
- buboard 7y agoYou can “accidentally” lose your training set. I think we should err on the side of non-infringement. After all, this is how our real brains work. As long as the works are perceived as nonrelated, it shouldnt matter if they come from someone else s dataset. The similarity could be put to the test by doing a double blind test with a group of humans
- sagebird 7y agoI think the method of creation is sometimes relevant. Like if you can prove that you wrote a poem before someone else did, but they registered the same work coincidentally I don’t think you will be treated the same as if it is shown that you copied. So it’s more than if the results are sufficiently novel to a blinded human... perhaps in the future this will be an area where you could be audited - forced to show your training sets or you will be assumed guilty???
- egfx 7y agoIs there any work out that is able to generate human bodies alongside the faces? The only thing I’ve seen close to this is the X-ray app. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18760896/deepfake-nude-ai-app-women-deepnude-non-consensual-pornography https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18760896/deepfake-nude-ai...
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- blacksqr 7y agoCreepy fun: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRrINyuPZ3B0_m8VTdmfkETGQdDt0VLH/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRrINyuPZ3B0_m8VTdmfkETGQdD...
- fortran77 7y agoThat girl's face looks ok...OMG What's that monster next to her!?
- zackkatz 7y agohttps://doc-00-7o-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/a28mupvffueiakoeo9l7qmec6bcplddf/62f3cih9chglp2jtum6ujrrbl1laohqb/1568988000000/05505109503746716616/15400632679111012794/1JKoYoqMIbsaj0jZNvpUzFQCHrWPKf35s?e=download&nonce=2ek4uk7d0rb8s&user=15400632679111012794&hash=r5283aecct50f3ponfar0nlfp7bui13g https://doc-00-7o-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/a...
- thisBrian 7y agoFixed your link[0] PS: Linking from your already downloaded url will generally be tied to your account session. 0: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JKoYoqMIbsaj0jZNvpUzFQCHrWPKf35s/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JKoYoqMIbsaj0jZNvpUzFQCHrWP...
- roddux 7y agoLooks like someone has rebranded 'thispersondoesnotexist.com', thrown together an advert and turned it into a startup.
- buboard 7y agoWhy not? This is useful, makes promotional/demo material more fun
- dwyerm 7y agoThere's also "This Person Does Not Exist[1]", which has been discussed a few time before[2], here. [1] https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280
- sabujp 7y agoThere's an artifact that looks like a scar on lots of these, e.g. : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WPsVkdt4qDxjV2itBgw_DXkTdU-esEwY https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WPsVkdt4qDxjV2itBgw_...
- mirekrusin 7y agoMy fav so far https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GaWX-n82P9LU2QMEwxmq2XEJWjRt5EL3/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GaWX-n82P9LU2QMEwxmq2XEJWjR...
- 52-6F-62 7y agoBeautiful. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WPsVkdt4qDxjV2itBgw_DXkTdU-esEwY https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WPsVkdt4qDxjV2itBgw_...