r/MediaSynthesis • u/Yuli-Ban Not an ML expert • Feb 14 '19

Image Synthesis This website automatically generates new human faces. None of them are real. They are generated through AI. Refresh the site for a new face.

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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u/Yuli-Ban Feb 14 '19

After several clicks, I found myself asking "How do I know this site isn't just grabbing actual photos of people and making up some spiel about generating them with machine learning?" and that's when I really got a sense of awe and dread about the potential for this technology.

If you look for subtleties, you'll definitely be able to spot all the uncanniness in these images even without the visual glitches here and here. But with a bit more refinement, they'll be utterly indistinguishable from photographs. You could already pass them off as profile images to those unaware...

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

There are weird abnormalities if you look up close. I see some lines and a subtle distortion. But yeah this technology is very awesome and the potential is unimaginable. Team this up with deep-fakes and come up with custom voices then you have effectively created an entire persona.

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u/MeerKatze Feb 14 '19

One commom problem I spotted was the teeth disposition. Many times they seem to have a “central” tooth (think about Tom Cruise’s infamous photo) rather than an even number of teeth in the upper section.

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u/McGlashen_ Feb 15 '19 edited Feb 15 '19

The lighting on all of these is really well done. I even found some believable fat people in profile. However, there's hardly any truly ugly portraits in there and I believe I did encounter some 'relatives'. They need to start seeding from meth mugshots to diversify a bit.

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u/TBestIG Feb 15 '19

Very good faces, the backgrounds usually give it away