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Funny that of all the "This X does not exist" sites, this one only gives relatively small, low-res pictures. Because I'd totally print out some of that stuff a

Funny that of all the "This X does not exist" sites, this one only gives relatively small, low-res pictures. Because I'd totally print out some of that stuff and hang it up!

chungy 7y ago
But then it would exist :) This generator of all of them seems to raise the more existential questions. What does it mean to exist? Surely art is art regardless of whether it's on a physical canvas. Just the act of generating it and serving pixels changes the state from "doesn't exist" to "does exist"...
dwd 7y ago
Mount a flat screen on the wall and refresh periodically. I would do that if it could be trained with specific artists I like.
gridlockd 7y ago
It's exponentially more expensive to train these at higher resolutions.
- gwern 7y ago
  Not exponentially. More like linearly in pixel count, you just tack on another convolution block. (StyleGAN doesn't use self-attention, but even naive self-attention is just quadratic.) The problem is more that you hit diminishing returns fast from training at higher resolutions. There's not too much difference between training at 1024px or training at 512px and using an off-the-shelf superresolution NN upscaler, but the latter is like 4x faster. So why bother? You don't always even have input data which is 1024px+.
valentinvieriu 7y ago
I've launched a similar project some weeks ago. https://art42.net https://art42.net see the previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22344254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22344254
- jansan 7y ago
  Some of those pictures are actually quite good.Would it be technically possible to generate larger versions?
- himinlomax 7y ago
  Note http://www.art42.fr/ http://www.art42.fr/
- gdubs 7y ago
  Hopefully you all don’t mind me tagging on (again) with a link to my project — similar space, but with Fauvist art: http://gregorywieber.com/art/a-walk-through-latent-space-making-art-with-neural-networks.html http://gregorywieber.com/art/a-walk-through-latent-space-mak...
buboard 7y ago
perhaps you can use another NN to up-scale them

Funny that of all the "This X does not exist" sites, this one only gives relatively small, low-res pictures. Because I'd totally print out some of that stuff and hang it up!

chungy 7y ago

But then it would exist :) This generator of all of them seems to raise the more existential questions. What does it mean to exist? Surely art is art regardless of whether it's on a physical canvas. Just the act of generating it and serving pixels changes the state from "doesn't exist" to "does exist"...

dwd 7y ago

Mount a flat screen on the wall and refresh periodically. I would do that if it could be trained with specific artists I like.

gridlockd 7y ago

It's exponentially more expensive to train these at higher resolutions.

gwern 7y ago
Not exponentially. More like linearly in pixel count, you just tack on another convolution block. (StyleGAN doesn't use self-attention, but even naive self-attention is just quadratic.) The problem is more that you hit diminishing returns fast from training at higher resolutions. There's not too much difference between training at 1024px or training at 512px and using an off-the-shelf superresolution NN upscaler, but the latter is like 4x faster. So why bother? You don't always even have input data which is 1024px+.

valentinvieriu 7y ago

I've launched a similar project some weeks ago. https://art42.net https://art42.net see the previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22344254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22344254

jansan 7y ago
Some of those pictures are actually quite good.Would it be technically possible to generate larger versions?
himinlomax 7y ago
Note http://www.art42.fr/ http://www.art42.fr/
gdubs 7y ago
Hopefully you all don’t mind me tagging on (again) with a link to my project — similar space, but with Fauvist art: http://gregorywieber.com/art/a-walk-through-latent-space-making-art-with-neural-networks.html http://gregorywieber.com/art/a-walk-through-latent-space-mak...

buboard 7y ago

perhaps you can use another NN to up-scale them