I know they aren’t real, yet I still feel a sense of empathy when I look into each one’s eyes. We are so hackable.
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Philip Wang at Uber set up thispersondoesnotexist.com to show a new imaGANary person every time you refresh the page
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Great fodder for a sci-fi story set in a world where producing the visual likeness of a human being (whether a recording or with AI) is made illegal. I’m sure such a story (or a hundred such stories already exists, of course.
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If you think that's bad, just wait until GPT-2 (or an equivalently powerful model) gets open sourced six months from now.
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Reminds me of this line research, which showed that many forms of empathetic reaction have nothing to do with identity: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108
Without heuristics, we could never be as effectively social. Will ubiquitous fakes leave scorched earth for collaboration?
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They could filter by age and gender, wrap this in a Tinder like interface and collect a dataset of user swipes
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Already research that suggests the answer. The most mathematically average faces are the most beautiful:
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