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City Does Not Exist
- johndoe0815 5y agoBielefeld?
- JrProgrammer 5y agoI was thinking that too but this seems to be in line with the https://thispersondoesnotexist.com https://thispersondoesnotexist.com series of websites where they are AI generated
- fho 5y agoNa ... I can see some part of it right now ... although maybe that is just what they want me to tell you.
- bayesian_horse 5y agoI wanted to post the same comment but luckily remembered to use the search function!
- aivisol 5y agoIn the light of current Russian military activities: Borne Sulinowo
- aivisol 5y agoTo avoid misunderstandings: Borne Sulinowo - town in Poland which during the Cold War housed large Soviet/Russian military base and therefore was erased from maps [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borne_Sulinowo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borne_Sulinowo
- muhehe 5y agoThere is a lot "X doesn't exist" sites. Is there any tutorial how to make my own?
- tinsmith 5y agoThis tutorial doesn't exist.
- otikik 5y agoThis tutorial does not exist.
- pawelduda 5y agoThis HN comment doesn't exist
- Jerrrry 5y agoGeneral adversarial networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
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- eimrine 5y agoGod does not exist
- brink 5y agoYou do not exist
- johndough 5y agoFirst, you have to collect a few thousand images of the same thing (maybe more or less depending on how complex your thing is or how good the results should be). Then, you train a generative adversarial neural network on those images to generate new images. https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2-ada-pytorch https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2-ada-pytorch works quite well. https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan3 https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan3 is supposedly even better, but I did not try it yet.
- lkbm 5y ago
- rob74 5y agoAs with all these "this X doesn't exist" sites, the images look ok at first sight, but when you start to look closer you notice that some things aren't quite right. In this case, it's mostly roads that don't seem to connect to anything...
- ogig 5y agoAs someone spending time looking at satellite and orthographic photos, i agree, this looks weird. City grid looks like cloth texture, roads and rivers make no sense. In any case, it manages to slightly impress me.
- sdflhasjd 5y agoIt's like it can't decide between a city on a grid or not, and instead ends up with a weird fusion of both - and like you said - looks like a woven fabric instead.
- dTal 5y ago>As someone spending time looking at satellite and orthographic photos That's presumably the same training the AI had :p
- warmwaffles 5y agoHow does one get an orthographic photo that is not artificially made? I know what an orthographic camera does in 3D graphics, but how can you accomplish that in a real life?
- detaro 5y agothey are "artificially made" by postprocessing aerial images. (You can actually do cameras that create orthographic images, but that's more for industrial vision etc since the frame covered obviously can't be larger than the lens, which doesn't really work for aerial photography, so if people talk about "ortophotos" in that sense they mean processed)
- hajhatten 5y ago
- omnicognate 5y agoThought maybe I should do thispipedoesnotexist, but of course it's been done: https://thispipedoesnotexist.com/ https://thispipedoesnotexist.com/
- gpvos 5y agoWould be nice to have an actual pipe-generating AI.
- SamBam 5y agoI believe Windows had a screensaver that did that decades ago...
- teh_klev 5y agoBack in the day, ~1995'ish I was a tech supporting Windows NT4 (amongst many other things) and I had a customer with a beefy dual processor server living on premises in a closet. For some unknown reason NT would slow down and overall performance was a bit rubbish. It turns out that the customer had turned on the pipes screensaver and it basically soaked up all of the CPU time. Fortunately my customer was more agreeable to disabling this compared to this similar story from those days of yore: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A-Fat-Pipe https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A-Fat-Pipe
- adonovan 5y agoUnfortunately the Dall-E demo (openai.com/blog/dall-e) doesn't have useful deep links nor let you choose free-form prompts, but if you modify one of the existing text prompts to "a snail made of faucet", it generates some pretty realistic pipes--the plumbing variety--that I'm pretty sure do not exist. Examples: https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_23.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran... https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_25.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran... https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_transfer/YSBzbmFpbCBtYWRlIG9mIGZhdWNldC4gYSBzbmFpbCB3aXRoIHRoZSB0ZXh0dXJlIG9mIGEgZmF1Y2V0Lg==_15.png https://cdn.openai.com/dall-e/v2/samples/animal_concept_tran...
- paskozdilar 5y agoI wonder if this could be used as a seed for videogame terrain-generator
- pavlovskyi 5y agoIt could be really to generate synthetic data for semantic segmentation tasks.
- aleksandarbos 5y agoNovi Sad Serbia
- NoGravitas 5y agoThis appears to be Dim Carcosa, on the shores of the lake of Hali: http://thiscitydoesnotexist.com/static/images/nautdopwpynverwr.jpg http://thiscitydoesnotexist.com/static/images/nautdopwpynver...
- tasha0663 5y agoThat ruptured eyeball peninsula is prime real estate.
- marcellus23 5y agoWhere flap the tatters of the Yellow King...
- ummwhat 5y agoIt's ok, but it never takes any bold risks putting in any distinctive "this landmark does not exist" buildings. It would never generate a gaudy pile of lights like Time SQ nor an oversized oyster shell like the Sydney opera house. I'd be fairly impressed if it generated distinctive features that feel like deja vue.
- amarant 5y agoThis is cool! There has been a bunch of these lately, is there some more or less comprehensive list of *doesnotexist websites somewhere? Would be fun to browse through them all for inspiration.
- pmmucsd 5y agohttps://thisxdoesnotexist.com/ https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
- lapetitejort 5y agoI'm disappointed that it doesn't generate equations with no solution, such as x = x + 1
- amarant 5y agoX=17mph https://m.xkcd.com/2585/ https://m.xkcd.com/2585/
- kingcharles 5y agohttps://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/ https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/ was hilarious. The bedroom of one looked like a squalid Soviet dorm-room, while the kitchen of the same rental looked like it was from a $100m megamansion.
- pornel 5y agoThis one looks like a graphical Markov chain generator. At this level of detail it's hard to tell if the generated city is implausible, because cities are shaped by many factors that aren't visible on the map (history, soil, location within larger region, economic and social policies, etc.) So a clump of buildings near a river avoiding mountains is a good guess every time.
- jzig 5y agoCool. Someone do this for TTRPG maps!
- fennecfoxen 5y agohttps://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator
- jojohohanon 5y agoOh. I thought it was a set of images of cites from satellite data that had no official name. Deniable cities, so to speak.
- abletonlive 5y agoY'all need to stop making stuff like this because when we go into the dark ages or humanity is wiped out, future people or aliens will be trying to find things that don't exist.
- mbg721 5y agoYou mean, things like humanity? On a more serious note, I think it's kind of cool that archaeology has sometimes worked in kind of the opposite way; everyone assumed the Trojan War was just made up, and then they found Troy.
- Archelaos 5y agoYeah, stop writing novels! Plato was right.
- hwers 5y agoI've started to think that the plausibility of recovering a lot of the digital data we're creating in the case of a nuclear winter might be really low. Imagine walking a wasteland of abandoned computers in a fallout-style land. The vast majority would be behind passwords and even when it wouldn't, the internet wouldn't be accessible. Raid serverfarms? They'll be torn apart for metal or even if not, behind even stronger encryption than regular computers. Feels like our accumulated knowledge is a lot more fragile than we acknowledge.
- kingcharles 5y agoTrue. What's the chances of stumbling upon an abandoned Facebook data centre and actually being able to exfiltrate any meaningful data from it?
- pkdpic 5y agoSomebody should make thiscityshouldexist.com
- moffkalast 5y agoThat's gonna be the title of the Ukraine reconstruction project.
- bregma 5y agoI swear one of the images that came up was New Jersey.
- yobbo 5y agoCrop shapes outside of the desert cities: it learned shape and colour palettes separately. Some shapes that seemed like roads but had small river deltas fanning out.
- kelseyfrog 5y agoThe lack of atmospheric correction makes this hard to appreciate.
- throwamon 5y agoOff-topic: @dang, was the title automatically stripped of a leading "This"? Off-topic^2: @dang, If you're reading this, what is the proper way of notifying you of minor stuff like this (if at all)? And how exactly do you see these comments? Do you just read ALL comments, or is there a system that detects mentions or stuff like that?
- newbamboo 5y agoDang does not exist.
- timerol 5y agoEmailing HN moderators is the best way to reach (without loss of generality) dang
- 8bitsrule 5y agoSometimes the HN algo will strip what it thinks is non-essential leading words from submissions. When it does that, the contributor can edit the title to replace it ... and the algo won't argue.
- smugma 5y agoWould be good if algo were tweaked to keep the opening "This" if the title ends in "Does Not Exist".
- credit_guy 5y agoI thought they were going to play on the theme "this X does not exist", then slam your emotional cords by showing you images of Ukrainian cities before and after shelling. Fortunately, I was wrong.
- feeela 5y agoWeird bureaucratic question here: Who owns the copyright for such generated pictures? An AI?