justswim

It looks like it actually got the wrong letters there, no?

Hi HN,

In the days since I've launched Mixfont, an AI font generator, I've gotten a good amount of feedback that's been skeptical of the quality of AI-generated fonts. I've also seen some articles shared discussing how high quality AI-generated fonts are still 3-4 years away.

I wanted to challenge these claims as I personally believe that the raster->vector font generation pipeline that's being used in Mixfont today is already good enough for the vast majority of use cases for decorative, display, stylized, etc fonts. While I think that creating a legendary variable font is not quite possible, I do feel that for most projects using AI-generated fonts is already high quality enough for many designers.

To prove out this hypothesis I've put together an AI Font Quiz, where some of these fonts are licensed from real font foundries, while others in this quiz are 100% generated with AI using the Mixfont model. You can try typing and testing out all of the fonts, and when you're ready you can select whether you think the font is AI-generated or human-made.

I would love to get your take on whether or not you can tell the difference between the AI-generated vs human-made fonts. I think that if AI-generated fonts are high enough quality, things will change quickly for the font industry in general.

I would appreciate your feedback and would love to hear what you score! Eric

I can try to add some alternative login methods on the playground. In the meantime you can run the inference stack that's available on Github! Thanks for checking it out.

Kapwing | San Francisco (SF), California (CA) | Onsite | https://www.kapwing.com We're a series A stage company building an in-browser, collaborative video editor (think Figma for video). We think content creation should be easier, accessible, and more collaborative.

We're looking for full-stack engineers that are interested in building a polished, consumer facing product that enables many content creation use cases. This job consists of everything from building the frontend tools to making sure our backend is scalable and reliable.

We're backed by top investors including CRV, KPCB, Shasta, Village Global. We have a culture of doing a lot of random things to grow our company and we write a lot about our startup journey on our blog: https://www.kapwing.com/blog.

I'm a co-founder, feel free to reach out directly if you're interested: [email protected]; or check out our open roles at https://www.kapwing.com/careers

HI HN,

I've gotten pretty worried about the developments in video deepfakes, and I wanted to raise some awareness about what's possible with fake videos today. I put together this quiz around real vs fake videos and I've been sharing it to see how well folks do. It's hard for me to tell how easy it is to complete it, given that I was the one who made the quiz, but I think the tech has come a long way and it's pretty scary how good it'll get. Especially in the context of the upcoming elections. Would love to get your thoughts!

One of the things that we did at Kapwing (https://www.kapwing.com) was manually edit videos using our own platform and sharing these videos with bloggers to try to convince them to use Kapwing. We could create a relevant video from an article that they wrote, and then share them the link to the project so that they could edit it directly with our tool.

Another random thing we did was try to make chalk posters on the streets of SF. We chalked our logo out in front of the 4th and King Caltrain station so that tech people would see it when coming out of the station. Unfortunately, that only worked for a day though, because the SF crews are very good at powerwashing the sidewalks.