And neither does this person:
Don't believe me? Go to ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com and try it for yourself.
But how?
This video sums it up very well. But in essence, Nvidia has trained a neural network on many millions of images of human faces.
At first the GAN only outputs very low quality images (such as a 28x28 image). But as it learns the nuances of human faces, it's consistently able to create better, higher definition, and more photorealistic humans.
What are the uses of this?
Plently. You can, for instance provide Facebook or other privacy nightmare social media services with a fake face from the website, rather than your own face.
There are negative uses to this too: This particular instance was trained on a variety of different person's faces.
A bad actor could train their own GAN (whose source is publicly available, by the way) on faces of public figures. Deepfakes is something similar to this.
Other projects to look out for
There are a total of five of these GAN experiments:
This person does not exist
This artwork does not exist
This cat does not exist
This horse does not exist
This chemical does not exist
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Dear @rxge
I found it actually so bloody scary to see how technology even at this stage can make us doubt on what is real and what isn't.
How to differ reality from illusion ... this is going to be very tricky. Very soon.
ps.
did you have a chance to read about project.hope economy?
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Yours, Piotr
Oops sorry 😅 I forgot about adding the beneficiary - I have never done it in the past, so it's quite an easy thing to forget.
I fully understand @rxge
It's not easy to build new habbit.
Do you know how to set up beneficiary? If you don't - then please let me tell you: once you will be editing new post, then before publishing it scroll down to "advanced settings" and you will find it there :)
Cheers
Piotr