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Ryan Hoover

This Person Does Not Exist - Computer generated people - refresh to get a new one

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This Person Does Not Exist presents a random, computer generated photo of a fictional person. Refresh the page each time for a new face.

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Ryan Hoover
Hunter
This is wild. Could be a useful tool similar to uiFaces for importing placeholder photos of people in mockups and prototypes.
Mat Silva
@rrhoover or be used for next level spam bots. Prob both! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Chris
@rrhoover That was my first thought. Any word from the makers about IP? @matsilva All the generic recruiters on Linkedin.
Phillip Wang
Maker
@rrhoover Hi, someone sent me here to say I made this!
Erik Eitel
@rrhoover @lucidrains I found some nude stuff while using our program for art purposes. Is this intentional?
Christopher Damitio
@rrhoover Pretty crazy. Have you started making random NFTs of the people who don't exist yet?
R. Colin Kennedy
How am I so scared and so impressed all at once?
Daniel Falk
How do I know that it is computer generated and not just a huge database of images of random people? 🧐
Jarek
@falkdaniel I've come across some of the same images in the preview images above. Looks like they don't generate on the fly.
Nate Silva
@falkdaniel Some of the images have AI-ish glitches. Weird blobs, or hair that doesn’t make physical sense. Eyes that aren’t quite right.
David D. LaCroix
@falkdaniel @natevancouver Lots of ear glitches, and glitches near edges of features, or edges where foreground meets background.
Joshua Sharp

Just wait until they let you say 'that one' and then have a whole portfolio of pictures from vacations, working, whatever, generated and sold on a range of backgrounds or the backgrounds of your choice and there's no risk of that person doing anything you don't like because they aren't real. Crazy. Esp if they let you 'click and replace' a given person with the generated one or add them... crazy.

Pros:

So good I'm hoping they're lying.

Cons:

Skynet.

Ross Currie
What I'm noticing is just how good everyone looks in these photos. Assuming these faces are automatically generated based on learning a whole heap of photos, I wonder if it would be possible to tweak the algorithm to generate good photos of me.
John G. Lin
@rossdcurrie the program is fed "celebrity" photos - not random photos. So a real human(s) selected the data upon which the program uses to generate the faces. It is not out of thin air. The point of the program is to demonstrate an improvement on machine learning by having a second program try to distinguish fake from real by comparing to real photos. The generator program keeps trying to fool the comparator program by improving the fakes based on the feedback.
Bilal Tahir
@rossdcurrie Actually its possible to do this via cyclic gans and other AI methods. Should see a tool with a 'instagram hot' filter soon. ;)
Mr. N TL Frown
The most fascinating thing about this is how, near, universally positive the comments are, rather than questioning how dangerous a tool like this could be re fake identities, scams (one person caed this), etc.
Aaron O'Leary
This is one of the crazier things I have seen
Gustavo Andrés Ibarra
What's behind this tech?
Ronald Das
@netpoe Some kind of GAN(generative adversarial networks) Checkout this repo: https://github.com/nashory/gans-...
Ernest Oppetit
Amazing. Any info / blog post / source on how this works?
Sebastien Lhomme
Impressive! This kind of stuff is going to be huge in a near future in opinion. Not only in stock photos/videos but also in film making / Broadcast. Imagine having fake but 100% real-looking actors/anchors. The Academy Awards surely would have used it this year is the technology was ready instead of going with a no-host show.
Brian Helfman
@slhomme is that a future we actually want??
John G. Lin
@slhomme there is a huge difference between generating still images and video that requires 3D motion. Technology for generating "fake" actors exists already - just much more expensive to make than hiring an unknown actor. There is already technology from Japan that generates fake virtual celebrities that perform on stage. The reason the Academy Awards isn't going with a host this year has nothing to do with it being unable to find one or for lack of budget- it was meant as a way to shorten the whole program to fit within a 3 hour slot.
Jeff Baker

I don't think this does what people think it does. Correct me if I'm wrong but this doesn't create faces out of nothing. It mixes or morphs parts of faces from real photos together. A technology that has been around for almost 20 years. It seems as though they have a selection of photos of faces that are used over and over. After a while the faces all look very similar. Some of them do not look good.

Pros:

Random faces. Possibly royalty free usage at noon cost?

Cons:

Some of the faces look really bad. Especially ones that mix older faces with younger faces.

Wanda Thomas
This site clearly was not made with black and brown people in mind. Pros: Will generate a face that genuinely looks like a person that could exist. Cons: Will not generate a black or brown person— that is racist
Elizabeth
This is stomach-turningly good. Yikes. #AI #ML #XR
Paul Danyliuk
Nice! Time to get back on Tinder 😁
Dimitri Bouriez
The future of video games
Adam Riggs-Zeigen
Another step towards blurring the lines between what is real and what isn't. As soon as this moves to video - a natural evolution - Hollywood actors are screwed.
Brian Condenanza
Interesting product, super scary. A curious question I have is to why they seem to have a bleach or weird dot in some of the front teeth? I would say that one in seven seem to have some super weird green thing on the teeth, and that kind of gives it away because it just looks so odd. Same with one I just saw, a man with a little white hole on his head. Creepy.
Robert Neal

Someone did say they got one black person after about 50 refreshes

Pros:

Cool way to visualize what AI can do.

Cons:

The owners have trained the AI to be a little racist for some reason it doesn't generate any black people when you refresh

Atticus Sikma
Artificial Cats are now Possible
Wanda Thomas
The site works amazingly, but it's clear that the creator did not have black and brown people in mind when creating the website. Pros: The faces genuinely look like people that could potentially exist. Cons: The site doesn't generate black and brown people— that's racist