Aergia
Mage
- Jun 20, 2023
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Aside from the fact that my ethnicity is different, this almost feels accurate.
Fun(?) fact: The AI trained to generate these images is called a generative adversarial network. The job of one network in the system (the generator) is to take a bunch of random numbers and use that to create a face (or whatever else is desired). The job of the other network (the discriminator) is to look at images and determine whether they're real or fake (created by the generator). When the generator creates an image that successfully fools the discriminator into thinking it's real, it learns from that (how to create realistic images), and when the discriminator successfully classifies a fake image, it learns from that (what fake images look like). Since they're both continuously improving by engaging with each other like this, when the training process is over, the generator is ideally able to create images indistinguishable from real ones—just using random "noise" as an input. Which is what happens when you access the site.
