Posted on 12/18/2018 3:10:11 AM PST by Freeport
Believe it or not, all these faces are fake. They have been synthesized by Nvidia’s new AI algorithm, a generative adversarial network capable of automagically creating humans, cats, and even cars.
The technology works so well that we can expect synthetic image search engines soon — just like Google’s, but generating new fake images on the fly that look real. Yes, you know where that is going — and sure, it can be a lot of fun, but also scary. Check out the video. It truly defies belief:
According to Nvidia, its GAN is built around a concept called “style transfer.” Rather than trying to copy and paste elements of different faces into a frankenperson, the system analyzes three basic styles — coarse, middle, and fine styles — and merges them transparently into something completely new.
Coarse styles include parameters such as pose, the face’s shape, or the hair style. Middle styles include facial features, like the shape of the nose, cheeks, or mouth. Finally, fine styles affect the color of the face’s features like skin and hair.
According to the scientists, the generator is “capable of separating inconsequential variation from high-level attributes” too, in order to eliminate noise that is irrelevant for the new synthetic face.
For example, it can distinguish a hairdo from the actual hair, eliminating the former while applying the latter to the final photo. It can also specify the strength of how styles are applied to obtain more or less subtle effects.
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The one on the left looks like a young Drew Barrymore.
Laz would likely enjoy hitting her with his Tron disc.
I’ll take the Marylin Monroe look-alike.
Bring on the movies about cats driving cars!
Believe nothing you see on the internet
Manufactured video evidence.
Computer generated kiddie porn that is legal because it is not a real kid.
The mind reals at the possibilities.
They’ll be configured to vote Democrat.
Yeah, my creep factor pegged over. Video purporting to be authentic, but is 100% fabricated; every persons nightmare. The false accusations will flow because I have video!
Within a decade or so, we will probably be able to download this for a price.
And create alternative reality.
I want my holodeck! Never mind what I’m going to do with it.
I don’t believe this article. To convince me present some impossible images that look this real .
People will just stop believing anything they see in any form of media. I’m OK with that.
QQQuuuuaaaarrrrkkkk!
Digital image evidence could all become useless.
I’d want a holodeck where everything works, no phone calls, no idiots, no sports, no printers, no cardboard, no junk mail, no liberals, and have all of my favorite movies and music with absolutely no Doug McClure.
This is a peg op to prepare the public in case incriminating Hillary videos are released:
Compounded by man’s absurd willingness to believe what should be obvious lies. And compounded by man’s willingness to tell great lies.
The people investing in this technology are not benign. They include would-be tyrants like the people running Google.
All porn/anti-porn and with them the pictorial pedophiles laws just went out the window.
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