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Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 06 2019, @12:38PM   
from the deep-fakes dept.

MrPlow writes:

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A new deep learning algorithm can generate high-resolution, photorealistic images of people — faces, hair, outfits, and all — from scratch.

The AI-generated models are the most realistic we've encountered, and the tech will soon be licensed out to clothing companies and advertising agencies interested in whipping up photogenic models without paying for lights or a catering budget. At the same time, similar algorithms could be misused to undermine public trust in digital media.

The algorithm was developed by DataGrid, a tech company housed on the campus of Japan's Kyoto University, according to a press release.

In a video showing off the tech, the AI morphs and poses model after model as their outfits transform, bomber jackets turning into winter coats and dresses melting into graphic tees.

Specifically, the new algorithm is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). That's the kind of AI typically used to churn out new imitations of something that exists in the real world, whether they be video game levels or images that look like hand-drawn caricatures.

Source: https://futurism.com/ai-generates-entire-bodies-people-dont-exist

Generative Adversarial Network

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Original Submission

• So, porn, then. So, porn, then. (Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Monday May 06 2019, @02:10PM (1 child)

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Monday May 06 2019, @02:10PM (#839609) Journal

  We all know where this is going, right?

  First, the porn industry will monetize it; then, the government will decide that imaginary porn is some kind of [insert entirely made-up threat here] and will try to legislate it into some dark corner, because its difficult to go wrong, politically speaking (votes, money), when engaged in tilting at the "saving the children" windmill.

  Then, some enterprising software type(s) will implement design-your-porn-at-home software, and the government will completely lose control over this. Which they will respond to with ever more draconian laws, dire warnings to mommies, dog whistles to religious and "moralist" groups, and more surveillance.

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• Re:So, porn, then. (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @03:07PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @03:07PM (#839649)

  This is all a setup for a "fake" blackmail video of many elites feasting on a human child or something.

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