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Interesting, how with billions of nodes and supposed "intelligence", the network hasn't been able to deduce a simple concept of symmetry in human faces. All of

Interesting, how with billions of nodes and supposed "intelligence", the network hasn't been able to deduce a simple concept of symmetry in human faces. All of the eyes and all of the lips in all of the pictures are asymmetrical, which easily gives AI generated images away.

MengerSponge 4y ago
It feels like they really only track local continuity without any meaningful knowledge. Hands are wonky and wrong in ways that don't look like any drawing I've ever seen. Horses with five or six legs. Humans also have a hilariously hard time drawing bicycles, but at least we pretty much always nail the number of appendages.
pmoriarty 4y ago
Midjourney is way better than this, though it too can produces some weird results... but at its best it's absolutely indistinguishable from photographs or art made by humans.
capableweb 4y ago
"Facial symmetry === beauty" is not that old of a scientific concept, relatively new if you compared to how long humanity has existed before someone started to really study it. And even so, too symmetrical faces will look just as un-human as a face that is too asymmetric. You need a face that is just the right amount of symmetrical in order for it to actually look good. I think you make it sounds simpler than what it is. It's also not a model that is trained to make as realistic people as possible, it's trained on a lot of different things, so obviously it won't excel at making realistic people. But one can easily imagine that some future models will be heavily trained on making realistic people rather than semi-realistic everything, like Stable Diffusion is trained to do today.
chaxor 4y ago
Many of the artists in this list specifically try not* to have this symmetry present in the faces. It's what makes many styles of art separate from just taking a photo or simply going outside. The system used here is actually astoundingly good at producing many artists stylesbecause it's not going for symmetry.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago
  It's true not only for these artist sets, but for photo sets as well, first noticed that with ThisPersonDoesNotExist.

MengerSponge 4y ago

It feels like they really only track local continuity without any meaningful knowledge. Hands are wonky and wrong in ways that don't look like any drawing I've ever seen. Horses with five or six legs. Humans also have a hilariously hard time drawing bicycles, but at least we pretty much always nail the number of appendages.

pmoriarty 4y ago

Midjourney is way better than this, though it too can produces some weird results... but at its best it's absolutely indistinguishable from photographs or art made by humans.

capableweb 4y ago

"Facial symmetry === beauty" is not that old of a scientific concept, relatively new if you compared to how long humanity has existed before someone started to really study it. And even so, too symmetrical faces will look just as un-human as a face that is too asymmetric. You need a face that is just the right amount of symmetrical in order for it to actually look good. I think you make it sounds simpler than what it is. It's also not a model that is trained to make as realistic people as possible, it's trained on a lot of different things, so obviously it won't excel at making realistic people. But one can easily imagine that some future models will be heavily trained on making realistic people rather than semi-realistic everything, like Stable Diffusion is trained to do today.

chaxor 4y ago

Many of the artists in this list specifically try not* to have this symmetry present in the faces. It's what makes many styles of art separate from just taking a photo or simply going outside. The system used here is actually astoundingly good at producing many artists stylesbecause it's not going for symmetry.

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y ago
It's true not only for these artist sets, but for photo sets as well, first noticed that with ThisPersonDoesNotExist.