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This Sneaker Does Not Exist
- schleck8 5y agoNew Balance logo https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.com/editor/?seed=1346 https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.com/editor/?seed=1346
- dr_orpheus 5y agoAs I was scrolling through I surprised to see how many Nike logos (or close to) appeared in the generated sneakers.
- m463 5y agoThis seems sort of like trying to buy shoes/clothing on amazon right now. The ratio of odd-made-up-word brands to "normal"/recognizable brands is going way up.
- senectus1 5y agonor does the website apparently.
- thih9 5y agoThe page doesn’t load for me. I couldn’t find any related page or repository. I assume this is similar to “this person does not exist” [1]. Other than that, does anyone have more context? [1]: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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- StatFallacieSuk 5y agoShame it's dead right now. You can see some of the gen'd sneaks on: https://web.archive.org/web/20211011073927/https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20211011073927/https://thissneak...
- StanvdVossen 5y agoYeah, it looks like the server was not able to handle the visitors. I'm completely new to webhosting, but I will try to get everything back online soon. Thanks for the archive link!
- BBC-vs-neolibs 5y agoSome are pretty dirty :)
- voiper1 5y agoWow, many of those look really cool.
- soulmerge 5y agoWow, I think this would be pretty useful as a shopping guide in an online shop: Let the user pick a few models they like and render more items based on the chosen ones. Present actual sneakers you have in stock at the last step.
- StanvdVossen 5y agoThat's definitely a cool idea! I might ask around different webshops to see if they're interested in something like this.
- injidup 5y agoToo many of those shoes look like they have a munged Nike logo which means that any company trying to ship them would soon be receiving a kindly call from the Nike megacorp lawyers. You would have to improve the training to avoid generating trademark / logo infringing designs. Could this be trivially done?
- samwhiteUK 5y agoOnly real shoes would be shipped...
- StanvdVossen 5y agoIn general this would not be easy. One way this can be accomplished is by removing all shoes with such logos from the training data. But Nike and Adidas are disproportionally large parts of my training set, so this would not be feasible. The other option would be to train a machine learning model to recognize said logo's and to use this model to remove sneakers with logo's from my generated images. This could however greatly reduce the variety of images on the website.
- t_von_doom 5y agoSlightly different implementation of your second option: Remove the logos in the dataset and train on this brand agnostic library
- makeitdouble 5y agoSite is dead as of now, but looking at the renders [0] they all look like viable designs, and pretty close to actual sneakers. I don't know if it's a testament to makers' creativity, as tbh there are way wilder sneaker designs released as actual products by Nike or Puma, or the limits set on the generating algorithms to stay within mainstream designs. [0] StatFallacieSuk's archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20211011073927/https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20211011073927/https://thissneak...
- bloopernova 5y agoSomewhat related: https://imgflip.com/ai-meme https://imgflip.com/ai-meme "This meme does not exist". Definitely good for a few minutes messing around while you have your morning coffee/tea/beverage of personal choice.
- ASalazarMX 5y agoI found it frustrating, since most texts make no sense. You can force yourself to imagine a situation where they make sense, but then it becomes tiring. I guess it's just lightly trained with the captions users have submitted for each image. It's a random meme generator that didn't even need AI if this was the intended end product. Maybe it being crappy is actually the joke and I'm missing it.
- citizenpaul 5y agoI decided i have no motivation or life today so I tried them all. Drake Meme - Doesn't Work Fry - Works well American Choppers - broken Distracted Boyfriend - Really Works well often funny. Women yelling at cat - Works well Skeptical Third world - Hit or miss can be funny Batman Slap - Works pretty well Disaster Girl - Works well often funny. That Would be great - Works very well but not funny. Change my mind - Totally broken Interesting Man - Works but not usually funny Epic handshake - Usually nonsense Exit ramp - 50/50 broken funny pikachu - works but not funny Grandma internet - works but not funny One Simply - Hit or miss on funny but works Leonardo Cheers - Broken Trump Signs - Broken Mocking Spongebob - Broken Doge - Broken Yoda - Nonsense and broken Expanding Brain - Mostly broken Seagul - Broken Tom - Broken Escaping ballon - 50/50 broken funny The Rock - 50/50 broken funny Spongebob dont - often funny Boardroom - broken Is this a pigeon - often nonsensically funny. Evil kermit - broken Third world success kid - Works sometimes funny Uno Draw - Works not funny Yall got any - kinda works but not funny Ancient aliens - works well often funny Scroll of truth - works sometimes funny killed hannible - all over the place Waiting skelly - Mostly works not funny Hide the pain - Sort of works can be really funny when it does Marked safe - works not funny X everywhere - half broken can be funny oprah - mostly broken sad spongebob - works but not funny Thinking - all over the place mostly nonsense but can be funny Tuxedo poo - all over the place can be funny hard to swallow pill - works can be funny.
- mejutoco 5y agoFunny how things work. About 6 months ago I joked about doing exactly this. Kudos for actually making it!
- mosselman 5y agoThere are some very nice designs in there. I bet you could start a legit brand or 5 with some of these in the catalog.
- prawn 5y agoGenerate 1,000 designs. Run them through a hot-or-not or a-vs-b competition. Make the winning sneakers into actual products.
- 5350-uiop-1130 5y agomaybe i'm oversimplifying. i had the same thought about the "thispersondoesnotexist" site...but are these not just composites of things that do exist? or maybe that's the point.
- StanvdVossen 5y agoYou’re somewhat right. The machine learning algorithm tries to replicate the general patterns on the images it’s trained on (so in this case, images of a lot of sneakers). If the algorithm is trained on enough images, it should, to an extent, learn to generalize and “understand” what a sneaker should look like and generate new ones rather than copying images. In my case, there is definitely some memorization going on, based on some shoes looking suspiciously similar to existing shoes, but there is also definitely some design going on not copied from other sneakers. But it builds the images “pixel by pixel” rather than e.g. taking the sole of one shoe with the upper of another if that’s what you’re asking.
- piva00 5y agoAs a bit of a sneaker head, it's been quite fun to see how the algorithm changes the shapes when playing with the sliders on the Sneaker Editor. Impressive that it isn't copying/pasting parts of shoes but actually building them pixel-by-pixel, I was editing a very AF1-looking sneaker and playing with the sliders made actual sensible changes to the shape and design. Pretty entertaining :) Quick edit: as a side question, the training dataset included all kinds of sneakers or was it biased towards more popular ones? I ask because from what I scrolled I missed seeing more avant-garde designs and wasn't sure if the model was trained on these or not.
- StanvdVossen 5y agoThanks! The training set included pretty much all sneakers I could find online. However, the algorithm tends to bias towards patterns that are more common e.g. hundreds of colorways of Air Jordans. BUT I can fine tune the model by training on a small subset of sneakers. So if you have any types of brands or sneakers that you would like to see generated, please feel free to mail me some examples at stan@thissneakerdoesnotexist.com and I will see what I can do.
- europa 5y agoMake them NFTs !! to follow the trend.
- DonHopkins 5y agoSigh.
- cinntaile 5y agoUnlike real sneakers, not one of these look like sneakers that I'd buy though. They look good but there's something off about them.
- jstx1 5y agoI get that the title is in the theme of this-x-does-not-exist but I don't think it's true in this case. Many of these look like existing models. The amount of variation in sneakers is limited so when you have 50k training images you end up copying some of them with little to no change because if you deviate too much you end with something that doesn't pass as a sneaker at all.
- fxtentacle 5y agoIn most cases, GAN produces a random mixture of features extracted from real photos. That's also why you can tempt GitHub Copilot to regurgitate Carmack's swearing comment.
- FeepingCreature 5y agoSufficiently advanced random mixture of features extracted from real photos is indistinguishable from genuine understanding. That's why I don't understand this argument. It's not true - you can make the AI generate specific samples, but most samples can not be found in the training data - but even if it was true, it wouldn't prove anything anyways, because you can always say "well the features it copies are just smaller" until the features are just combinations of pixels. It's unfalsifiable even for human artists.
- jstx1 5y agoThe usefulness of any of this generated stuff eludes me.
- pc86 5y agoIt depends on your definition of "useful." If you look at a single GAN-generated image in isolation it's almost certainly "useless" for most definitions. But if you need a bunch of faces, sneakers, buildings, whatever, and you want to be cognizant of people's privacy, and you don't mind the occasional weird image artifact or completely fake-looking image, these can be good alternatives to sourcing a large number of real images.
- angarg12 5y agoI work with a shoemaker and I've commissioned a few bespoke sneakers (trainers as we call them here) in the past. He comes up with new designs from scratch, and I made suggestions and ask for changes based on my taste. Usually I browse online shops for inspiration, but I'm curious about whether this service can produce original designs sensible enough to, at least, be the base of a new shoe.
- danzeeeman 5y agoYeah the process is being used to generate sneakers well before this guy even started scraping the net. We had our first prototype in production last winter and just finished our second two. http://aire-gan.com http://aire-gan.com
- danzeeeman 5y agoI did this first https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/AIREGAN https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/AIREGAN
- danzeeeman 5y agoand I actually made the sneakers from the GAN https://www.aire-gan.com https://www.aire-gan.com
- globular-toast 5y agoEven though these are just shoes, there is something really freaky about images generated in this way. Makes me feel really uneasy.
- danzeeeman 5y agoyeah its crazy how real and crispy they can get. My new experiments with StyleCLIP are even weirder
- StanvdVossen 5y agoI have seen your project. However, I think claiming "first" is disingenuous. There are many projects like ours that date back at least 3 years. We just happen to undertake these projects at a time when algorithms are better and results are palatable.
- danzeeeman 5y agoactually been working on it for a couple years, first with StyleGAN then StyleGAN2 then StyleGAN2-Ada now StyleCLIP which I haven't dropped yet.
- ellisv 5y agoA few years ago, I interviewed at StockX, and the team was working on exactly this – using GANs to generate pictures of shoes. Interesting to see essentially the same thing here a few years later.
- daniel_reetz 5y agoAlways interesting to see just how far ahead you/some project was - or wasn't.
- ellisv 5y agoI'm sure it was a cool project but it was difficult for me to see the utility of it.
- mrbean19 5y agoHi Ellis
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- mcc1ane 5y agoman, modern sneakers are ugly
- StanvdVossen 5y agoThank you for all your support, guys! I was not expecting this much traffic. I am currently in the process of moving my site to a better server. While this is in progress, only the images cached by Cloudflare can be loaded. This means that the editor for most shoes will not work. I apologize for the inconvenience!
- motohagiography 5y agoThis could change the game for sneaker marketing, and fashion in general. I'd be really interested in this for A-B testing mens sportswear.
- LegitShady 5y agowho knew we would replace the shoe designers with automation before we replaced the sweatshops that produce them with automation.
- daniel_reetz 5y agoThis is actually very prescient. In many ways it is much easier to replace artists than labor, contrary to the current narrative. A simple example in visual effects are "artist guided tools". Instead of having a team of artists place and guide every virtual hair, you have a single artist draw a curve for the hair to follow, and the computer figures out the rest. There are dozens of examples like this in the world right now.
- 1001101 5y agoLooking at some of the output... I think I'll stick with Tinker Hatfield and Sergio Lozano. Also, New Balance 574s definitely exist.
- shmatt 5y agoI did something similar in a big fashion company in the past They had a non-utilized collection of tens of thousands of tagged clothing photos going back to the 80s. I Used DCGAN to generate images of new clothing, then model arithmetic to request specific ("sparkly winter dress") pieces. It was pretty amazing to see the strength with existing photos The higher ups stared, blinked a few times, and just muttered they don't get it I have no doubt this is in the future of fashion design in the next 20 years. I just hope those images don't get lost when the company inevitably shuts down
- toper-centage 5y agoFashion is so diverse that you can hardly ever create something that looks distinctively new. Me with these shoes. They either look weird or regular, and the regular probably exist in a very similar style.
- DeathArrow 5y agoWhat kind of hardware did you use?