This person does not exist

[Albemouff]

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

This site shows you a portrait of a random person that does not exist. The portrait is generated by an AI.

I'm not sure if the site generates a new portrait every time you visit or if those portraits are pre-generated and stored, but still, that is very impressive, and a bit scary.

[Naedmi]

I remember this site yes. People use it to catfish, some have even used it in the past to catch predators without having to use a real person as bait.

[WhispersOfTheWind]

They, the pictures have sometimes 'weird' features or just something weird about them, in the way that they glance for instance and , where, which is for instance compared to 'real' people, I think sort of 'weird' or 'unusual' to see them in those poses, with that glazed look sometimes looking at things 'weirdly' which just intuition wise tells me that something's slightly off, except that.

I really can't see the difference between let's say real people and 'fake' ones from the site because essentially they're very well done.

[Birds]

One I saw the mouth/lips looked like a magazine cutout, and the expression didn’t really match across the face between eyebrows, lips, and eyes.

It’s hard to match naturalistic expressions with a composite, so most emotional markers wind up exaggerated.

Impersonators and impressionists are often similar, same with many stage people like actors, musicians, roleplayers, etc.

In order to avoid appearing ‘wooden’ they exaggerate their imaginary feelings and try to avoid scrutiny.

Inevitably they appear more ‘realistic’ when they begin to express a true portion of their ‘self’ through their work.

Which composite fakes just can’t really do. Expressing their self just heightens the emptiness and drives it towards the uncanny valley.

[Nomad]

Eyes are too low and often too close.

[wubbelflup]

i love this site, sadly russian trolls love them too. tbh, trolls in general haha.

there are some errors in them, especially the ears and background!
but still. nifty tech.

model agencies already exist that sell AI generated stock photo's.. the future isn't what we expected..

[GunsForBucks]

The only thing I find scary is that they obviously feel like they have everyone's faces already and seem to know there isn't one like it.

That is super creepy.

[Birds]

...?

Heaven, I may have been considering your particular brand of inconsistent exaggeration when I said this.

But attacking me over it seems odd, as what I said applies generally across all artistic fields.

I’ll spare you a long rant about Inside Llewlyn Davis being about a man attempting to escape himself by focusing exclusively on his craft, and instead ask:

What about it made you feel it was about you?

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by 🎃 tiny E 🎃:

♥♥♥♥!
My picture came up!

I KNEW IT!

Hide, they might send out a Hitman to take out real people. It's not AI generated at all!

But seriously, Nvidia has the technology to do this AI which uses your own image as well. What they can do is send your webcam at a very low quality with little bandwidth across the Internet, then upscale it back to high quality at the other end with AI. Saving on bandwidth and lag, etc. It's used for Twitch Livestreams and stuff like that too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGxaAhIOgho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFK7Iy8enqM

The same thing can be done with TV Streaming, etc. Which is used in the Nvidia Shield Pro. If you get an old movie or tv show at 1080p or below, it can upscale it to 4K or even higher.

[Birds]

Well, expectations can shape reality in that you increasingly only see what you expect to and ignore everything contrary to it.

And the more you look the more inevitable you’ll find someone that resembles you or someone you know.

I like hearing other people’s introspections myself. Not everyone does though.

[Birds]

‘Expectations shape reality’ always feels like it has some excess baggage attached to me.

Maybe that’s just the principle in action though, idk.

[Birds]

Welp, there’s always tomorrow.

[Birds]

What?!

[Birds]

Oh, ya, definitely a good one.

Welp that’s enough thread derailment for me.

[Birds]

Aw ♥♥♥♥ I just realized the face it made looked a lot like Samuel.

[Birds]

Dahli.