Re:Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks
by gwern on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @10:39AM
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GAN images are, I think, as far as humans go, pretty creative. It's easy to look at them knowing what they are and dismiss them (especially if you focus on the worst samples), but if you didn't know...
One of the things that has most amused me about creating https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net is watching the reactions to images being posted elsewhere, especially without (initial) attribution: not a few people like the faces enough to request info about the character or artist, or say that it looks a bit machine-learning-like but is obviously too good to actually be ML-generated, or compliment OP on their illustration! People have begun casually using them as avatars, and there's one account on Pixiv for just uploading TWDNE or other faces generated by my StyleGAN models.
One of the things that has most amused me about creating https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net is watching the reactions to images being posted elsewhere, especially without (initial) attribution: not a few people like the faces enough to request info about the character or artist, or say that it looks a bit machine-learning-like but is obviously too good to actually be ML-generated, or compliment OP on their illustration! People have begun casually using them as avatars, and there's one account on Pixiv for just uploading TWDNE or other faces generated by my StyleGAN models.