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Authors here! Stable Diffusion and DALL·E have made it simpler to create new images. But getting photorealistic results is still a challenge… This is a contin

Authors here! Stable Diffusion and DALL·E have made it simpler to create new images. But getting photorealistic results is still a challenge… This is a continuation of our work from 3 months ago on “This Food Does Not Exist” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32167704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32167704). We are now using both Stable Diffusion and GANs depending on the subjects we want to render.

MasterScrat 4y ago
Models for the 256px food images were previously released here: https://github.com/nyx-ai/stylegan2-flax-tpu https://github.com/nyx-ai/stylegan2-flax-tpu
lm28469 4y ago
> But getting photorealistic results is still a challenge… Understatement of the year, I wonder if/when we'll get there
LegitShady 4y ago
these are AI generated 'photorealistic' images, not 'ai generated photography'. Photography is a particular process you are not involved in during the course of these AI activities, as far as I can tell. If you somehow have Machine Learning algorithms operating cameras it would be correct.
- thih9 4y ago
  You’re right; then again, my money’s on “ai photo” becoming common enough to acquire meaning on its own. We already have a glow-worm (not a worm), funny bone (not a bone), Baby Yoda (not the Yoda), and many more.
  - LegitShady 4y ago
    that other people are incorrect is no reason to volunteer to be incorrect too. In fact I'd say its the opposite of good to use the wrong terms when you know better. I suppose 'AI Generated Photography' sounds better than 'yet another stable diffusion model' but one is correct and the other isn't. This has nothing to do with photography.
    - DemocracyFTW2 4y ago
      "ai fauxto" (or "phauxto"?)
      - thih9 4y ago
        With lowercase “ai fauxto” it’s almost like iPhoto [1]. The name is now available I guess… [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhoto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhoto
- CharlesW 4y ago
  > these are AI generated 'photorealistic' images, not 'ai generated photography'. Amen, brother. Also, "fauxtography" was RIGHT THERE.
  - pessimizer 4y ago
    I will repeat the word "fauxtography" whenever I have an opportunity.
  - sam1r 4y ago
    Wow. Mind blown faux-sho.
- macrolime 4y ago
  These are photos of Latent Space taken with a Autoencoder Decoder camera :p
itronitron 4y ago
I was expecting to also see some photographs of traffic lights.

MasterScrat 4y ago

Models for the 256px food images were previously released here: https://github.com/nyx-ai/stylegan2-flax-tpu https://github.com/nyx-ai/stylegan2-flax-tpu

lm28469 4y ago

> But getting photorealistic results is still a challenge… Understatement of the year, I wonder if/when we'll get there

LegitShady 4y ago

these are AI generated 'photorealistic' images, not 'ai generated photography'. Photography is a particular process you are not involved in during the course of these AI activities, as far as I can tell. If you somehow have Machine Learning algorithms operating cameras it would be correct.

thih9 4y ago
You’re right; then again, my money’s on “ai photo” becoming common enough to acquire meaning on its own. We already have a glow-worm (not a worm), funny bone (not a bone), Baby Yoda (not the Yoda), and many more.
- LegitShady 4y ago
  that other people are incorrect is no reason to volunteer to be incorrect too. In fact I'd say its the opposite of good to use the wrong terms when you know better. I suppose 'AI Generated Photography' sounds better than 'yet another stable diffusion model' but one is correct and the other isn't. This has nothing to do with photography.
  - DemocracyFTW2 4y ago
    "ai fauxto" (or "phauxto"?)
    - thih9 4y ago
      With lowercase “ai fauxto” it’s almost like iPhoto [1]. The name is now available I guess… [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhoto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhoto
CharlesW 4y ago
> these are AI generated 'photorealistic' images, not 'ai generated photography'. Amen, brother. Also, "fauxtography" was RIGHT THERE.
- pessimizer 4y ago
  I will repeat the word "fauxtography" whenever I have an opportunity.
- sam1r 4y ago
  Wow. Mind blown faux-sho.
macrolime 4y ago
These are photos of Latent Space taken with a Autoencoder Decoder camera :p

itronitron 4y ago

I was expecting to also see some photographs of traffic lights.