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posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 23 2019, @05:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the welcome-to-the-uncanny-valley dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

It’s getting easier and easier to use AI to generate convincing-looking, yet entirely fake, pictures of people. Now, one company wants to find a use for these photos, by offering a resource of 100,000 AI-generated faces to anyone that can use them — royalty free. Many of the images look fake but others are difficult to distinguish from images licensed by stock photo companies.

The project’s Product Hunt page lists Icons8 product designer Konstantin Zhabinskiy as the creator. Icons8 is a designer marketplace for icons and photographs. The AI-produced images are intended to be used as design elements in anything from presentations to websites and mobile apps. Everything is free to use with link attribution back to generated.photos.

[...]Zhabinskiy is keen to emphasize that the AI used to generate these images was trained using data shot in-house, rather than using stock media or scraping photographs from the internet. “Such an approach requires thousands of hours of labor, but in the end, it will certainly be worth it!” exclaims an Icons8 blog post.

There are valid concerns about technology that’s able to generate convincing-looking fakes like these at scale. This project is trying to create images that make life easier for designers, but the software could one day be used for all sorts of malicious activity.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @12:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @12:05PM (#897514)

    Will the most downloadeds become Fake Celebrities. Maybe they will be taken from the free tier and put in the dollar bin.

    The current stock photos industry will claim unfair competition or will become customers to this new provider.

  • (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Monday September 23 2019, @02:50PM

    by BsAtHome (889) on Monday September 23 2019, @02:50PM (#897566)

    And then, the fake celebrities will sue all you for copyright infringement. Even the fakes have rights! Just like companies are persons, fakes are persons too and soon will develop real feelings. Soon: "Don't anthropomorphize the computer and its creations, (s)he doesn't like it and will sue you for all you have."

    Even if that sounds over the top... Reality amazes me every time, just wait for it.