Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don't Exist (futurism.com) 87

Posted by msmash on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:02PM from the pushing-the-limits dept.

A new deep learning algorithm can generate high-resolution, photorealistic images of people -- faces, hair, outfits, and all -- from scratch. From a report: The AI-generated models are the most realistic we've encountered, and the tech will soon be licensed out to clothing companies and advertising agencies interested in whipping up photogenic models without paying for lights or a catering budget. At the same time, similar algorithms could be misused to undermine public trust in digital media.

The algorithm was developed by DataGrid, a tech company housed on the campus of Japan's Kyoto University, according to a press release. In a video showing off the tech, the AI morphs and poses model after model as their outfits transform, bomber jackets turning into winter coats and dresses melting into graphic tees. Specifically, the new algorithm is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN).

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GANs have been around since 2014 (Score:4, Informative)

by DavenH ( 1065780 ) writes: on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:13PM (#58535696)

5 years old isn't new by any standards, but even less so in the AI field. And wasn't developed by datagrid, though perhaps this particular model was, it was Ian Goodfellow et al.

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  by CanadianMacFan ( 1900244 ) writes:
  
  In the article there's a link to an article on Mashable [mashable.com] that's dated December 8, 2011. So it's more than 5 years old.
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    by DavenH ( 1065780 ) writes:
    
    No that Mashable article is talking about photoshops, not GAN-generated imagery.
    
    This is the original GAN paper, circa 2014:
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.266... [arxiv.org]
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  by zenos000 ( 649014 ) writes:
  
  1) GANNs yes are five years old. This paper _is_ new research (well 1 year ago): http://openaccess.thecvf.com/c... [thecvf.com] 2) It's incorrect grammar to start a sentence with "and". :/
Virtual Automata (Score:3)

by mentil ( 1748130 ) writes: on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:17PM (#58535710)

I wonder if they can get these to animate. I've seen a video of an animated 3d model, that moves according to how it was observed moving in an input 2d video. In other words, feed in 2d video of people moving, and it can output 3d animations of people moving in arbitrary ways.
This could be useful for producing CGI extras in movies or possibly games (e.g. crowds in GTA).

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  by Suren Enfiajyan ( 4600031 ) writes:
  
  Faces can be already animated. They're called Deepfakes [youtube.com].
- Re: Virtual Automata (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by Mspangler ( 770054 ) writes: on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:37PM (#58536038)
  
  The movie "Looker" will come true very soon now.
  
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    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    This is already more advanced.
    IIRC, in that movie, they needed to do a 3D scan of the model.
    This will generate just as good likenesses (and likenesses of imaginary people) without such a scan.
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  by ron_ivi ( 607351 ) writes:
  
  Also could revolutionize porn.
  Models generated on the fly specific to every viewer's preferences.
More neural nets trained on race limited data (Score:2, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

It’s too bad there wasn’t a single genuinely dark skinned model generated.
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  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Did you watch the video? There were at least two black guys.
Pictures of bodies (Score:2)

by K. S. Kyosuke ( 729550 ) writes:

They're not *actual* bodies. Although that would be kind of awesome for trolling police.
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  by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:
  
  Comment removed based on user account deletion
First, we had deep fakes. (Score:2)

by grep -v '.*' * ( 780312 ) writes:

First, we had deep fakes. Now we have "no one there" at all. Robots taking over our jobs?? Hell, they're taking over our lives!!

Of course, Windows and Linux has already taken over mine a long time ago.
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  by tomhath ( 637240 ) writes:
  
  they're taking over our lives!!
  You have a life? Then what are you doing here?
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  by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * writes:
  
  "First, we had deep fakes. Now we have "no one there" at all. Robots taking over our jobs?? Hell, they're taking over our lives!!"
  Worse, they'll take over your porn.
"People who don't exist" (Score:1)

by PopeRatzo ( 965947 ) writes:

So maybe they can make an Anonymous Coward that's not a Russian troll?
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  by Ed Tice ( 3732157 ) writes:
  
  Okay this wasn't very funny but it sure doesn't deserve to be moderated flamebait. Even if you don't like a particular user, you should still moderate based on the post itself and this appears to be nothing more than a reasonable attempt at humor.
Public trust? (Score:3)

by tomhath ( 637240 ) writes: on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:53PM (#58536090)

similar algorithms could be misused to undermine public trust in digital media
What "public trust" are they talking about? It's a given that most pictures you see are photoshopped.

Blockchain and PKI (Score:1)

by iTrawl ( 4142459 ) writes:

I know, the title is triggery, but hear me out: We need to make use of PKI to mark the source of anything, and we need to use Blockchain technology. Not the same thing a cryptocurrency mining. We don't need any resource intensive math problem. We just need to use our PKI identities to add stuff to the blockchain, and use the blockchain as a proof of integrity. It doesn't even need to be a global blockchain. It needs to be enough to proove origin and integrity of edits (git is technically a blockchain, and i
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  by phantomfive ( 622387 ) writes:
  
  We have all that, the only problem is trust: how do you prove the person who signed it is who they claim to be? With every verification scheme, there is always some hole based on trust. It is like the analog hole in DRM.
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    by religionofpeas ( 4511805 ) writes:
    
    We have all that, the only problem is trust: how do you prove the person who signed it is who they claim to be?
    Use an official key server operated by some government agency ?
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      by phantomfive ( 622387 ) writes:
      
      Can you think of a way to hack it or break the chain of trust?
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        by religionofpeas ( 4511805 ) writes:
        
        In theory maybe, but in practice we have many other servers in financial and government world with high security requirements that we all depend on, and they seem to be holding up pretty well.
        
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        by phantomfive ( 622387 ) writes:
        
        Do you think the Swift network gets hacked very often in practice?
Finally (Score:2)

by NicknameUnavailable ( 4134147 ) writes:

Fat people are being automated away.
Uni (Score:1)

by dohzer ( 867770 ) writes:

Wow... from scratch. So first it invented the universe, and then it created the bodies, right?
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  by freeze128 ( 544774 ) writes:
  
  Lets hope the crust isn't too crumbly.
Zoolander sequel... (Score:1)

by kbaud ( 1001076 ) writes:

It almost writes itself... the supermodels will save us from our AI overlords.
copying little is not plagiarism (Score:2)

by yes-but-no ( 4133651 ) writes:

You copy from one image/object it's plagiarism. You copy tiny bit each from 10k images it's called GAN. [btw gyan in sankrit/hindi means wisdom]
max headroom (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

Max, your time to shine is now!
Color me unimpressed (Score:3)

by Artem S. Tashkinov ( 764309 ) writes: on Saturday May 04, 2019 @07:50AM (#58537522) Homepage

The press release says their AI is capable of generating photorealistic images of people up to the minute details of their skin but all we get is a low res picture and equally bad youtube video where you can barely see any details.

Seems pretty homogenous (Score:2)

by tezbobobo ( 879983 ) writes:

Where are the fat people? Pear shaped people? Super busty women? Neck beard men? Fuggly people? Old people?

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GANs have been around since 2014 (Score:4, Informative)

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Virtual Automata (Score:3)

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More neural nets trained on race limited data (Score:2, Interesting)

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Pictures of bodies (Score:2)

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First, we had deep fakes. (Score:2)

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"People who don't exist" (Score:1)

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Public trust? (Score:3)

Blockchain and PKI (Score:1)

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Finally (Score:2)

Uni (Score:1)

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Zoolander sequel... (Score:1)

copying little is not plagiarism (Score:2)

max headroom (Score:2, Funny)

Color me unimpressed (Score:3)

Seems pretty homogenous (Score:2)

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