7 ms·
This Person Does Not Exist (2019)
- dt3ft 6y agoThis is how fake profiles are created for dating sites :)
- moron4hire 6y agoIt's hard to describe, but to me the eyes always look "wrong". They look too symmetrical, like one is just a mirror of the other, with no compensation for lighting. But they also look asymmetrical, like one is just a copy+translate of the other, so the almond shape of the eye doesn't go in the right direction. That's not exactly right, but those are the feelings I get.
- shotta 6y agoThe eyes creep me out right away. Uncanny valley.
- pwdonald 6y agoMaybe I just haven’t looked at enough samples but the eyes look acceptable to me.
- lostlogin 6y agoI agreed with you, then flicked through a load. There is something going on that isn’t right. Having the eyes at the same coordinates each time is quite creepy too.
- danilocesar 6y agoLOL, you folks blew it for me. I didn't see it, now I can't unsee it :)
- hcurtiss 6y agoReally? I find them pretty convincing.
- moron4hire 6y agohttp://mrbazilewich.weebly.com/uploads/6/2/0/4/6204690/twain_river.pdf http://mrbazilewich.weebly.com/uploads/6/2/0/4/6204690/twain...
- jcims 6y agoThe big tell for me are the ears, which are frequently distorted, and ghastly ‘people’ in the background.
- moron4hire 6y agoYeah, I didn't spend as much time studying ears as I did eyes in art school, but now that you mention it, I see it. Most of the "parts" of the face look like they've been clipped out of a magazine and photoshopped on. There are subtle errors in orientation that don't match the head's orientation. It makes the overall head look flatter than the lighting on the face would suggest. Incidentally, I work in VR, and mismatch of depth cues between color and position are things that can cause simulator sickness.
- lostlogin 6y agoYes, I think that the gender and race of the ears doesn’t always match. Maybe gender is the wrong word, but some ears look too delicate for the individual or something. I’d never guess these were fake if I saw one by itself though.
- o_class_star 6y agoOddly, I found the people more believable than the cats. The people looked realistic about 70% of the time; the cats, never. I did pull one body horror: a little girl, with a background of flowers, and a petal-shaped wound in her cheek. Freaky stuff.
- aero-glide 6y agoJust got this creepy one : imgur.com/a/L4DVsVQ
- o_class_star 6y agoTaking that classical principle of being the best looking in his friends' group a little far, it seems.
- malnourish 6y agoNow to literally set this into motion and create movies which don't exist and claim copyright on those movies. Keep it up long[0] enough and produce a movie which _will_ exist or _does_ exist. Substitute movie with your choice of medium. [0]: Longer than that, even
- esquivalience 6y ago"Creating movies which don't exist" is the same as "creating movies".
- unreal37 6y agoInfinite monkeys on infinite typewriters can produce a work of Shakespeare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem Or infinite AI creating infinite movies can create Avatar.
- zingplex 6y agoI remember there being an archive that indexed a random stream of numbers from which you could download a range of random bytes, the idea being theoretically everything can be found within the dataset. I think it was done in protest of copyright or something like that. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
- smusamashah 6y agoLibrary of babel?
- thricegr8 6y agoYep - Vsauce has a nice video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bbInWfAgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bbInWfAgA
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoDo monkeys really produce an uniform distribution of keystrokes? Humans don't, and they're also primates.
- RKearney 6y agoPrevious discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22264164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22264164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280
- djmips 6y agoThe generator seems to have improved since then.
- dmitrybrant 6y agoIt's pretty impressive stuff to be sure, but the fakeness actually becomes very obvious once you understand what to look for. Something about the contour of the nose, the shape of the hair line, the way the teeth are aligned, etc. In some dystopian future I imagine this will be part of our education to distinguish genuine content from fake news.
- chki 6y agoCan you get into more detail on those "very obvious" markers? I kept looking but I can't find them at all.
- dmitrybrant 6y agoTake this example that the site just gave me: https://imgur.com/a/dbpZx2r https://imgur.com/a/dbpZx2r It's pretty convincing, until you look in between the lips where the teeth are supposed to show through. You see some very clear "AI smudging" artifacts that are a dead giveaway. Less obviously: - the eyelashes on his left eye look unrealistic - the way the nose connects to the rest of the face (especially in the highlights) is too smudgy - the texture and tone of the skin is very uneven, and again smudgy in various places, indicating that this is a Mr. Potato Head constructed image.
- maciejw 6y agoFollowing the advice to look for "fakeness" markers I would mention a few recurring ones: 1) unreal background (like monsters or distorted images) 2) strange-looking moles or birthmarks (white, very round or else) 3) distorted texts and logos on clothing 4) fabrics of the garments don't look real too 5) jewelry gets distorted or multiplied 6) glasses often look fake on the edges Nevertheless this looks impressive.
- Izmaki 6y agoThis 5 year old's shaved moustache: https://freeimage.host/i/26lDkG https://freeimage.host/i/26lDkG :)
- 6y ago
- hnracer 6y agoPossible commercial application: Pornographic deep fakes of niche fetishes the don't have much original content because of how small the market is. Make the controls (race, number of people in scene, etc) toggleable by the user for maximal satisfaction...
- 0xdeadb00f 6y agoI realise this is subjective but I haven't yet seen an image of a person who is _very_ (conventionally) attractive. These all seem to range between not attractive and average for me.
- djmips 6y agoNo black people? I refreshed about 50 times and not one black person. Small number of Asians.