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Given that this was created by Chinese people, in Hong Kong, why are all their examples white/hispanic people?
by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Given that this was created by Chinese people, in Hong Kong, why are all their examples white/hispanic people?
- grawprog 6y agoOf all the possible things you could choose to comment on about this product, why did you feel like this was the most relevant for discussion?
- angstrom 6y agoIt's interesting if it's due to a library used and worth noting.
- cmdshiftf4 6y agoI just noticed it and found it interesting. Why is it interesting? Well for one, it raises an eyebrow as to the motivations behind either the technology or that of the promotional material produced for it. I'd find it similarly interesting if, for an example, an entirely Russian team produced deepfake tech and produced promotional material for it entirely consisting of black people. Especially in an era where we already acknowledge the prevalence of nation state cyber psyops / propaganda / manufactured news and "facts".
- rdiddly 6y agoNot to mention beautiful. I'm betting they trained it on that "celebrities" dataset.
- lavoiems 6y agoIt is because they most likely used the CelebA dataset: http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/CelebA.html http://mmlab.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/projects/CelebA.html.
- dpau 6y ago"We build this on the face image data of CelebAMask-HQ [24], which contains high-resolution facial images with semantic masks of facial attributes. For simplicity, we currently focus on front faces, without decorative accessories (e.g., glasses, face masks)." https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.01047.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.01047.pdf