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Fun fact: This double agent process can be played against itself in an accelerated manner. This is a GAN, a Generative Adversarial Network. One of the nifty things accomplished with it so far are style transfers.

https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html a fun example.

hahah I'm an artist as well and I'm pretty concerned about such thing, take a look at these:

https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/

https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html

https://waifulabs.com/

I think we're not far from such doomed day when AI make fanart, truly scary times

https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (photo-like portraits done by AI. Look at the teeth to see that they aren't real!)

https://campaignwiki.org/face/gallery/alex/random (drawings made from random components)

https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html (bonus: randomly generated anime girls using same technology as the faces above)

This person does not exist.

This cat also does not exist.

This anime does not exist.

Just recently, neural networks became scary at drawing lifelike (and artsy) pictures and writing texts that don't seem bot-generated at the first glance.

This Waifu Does Not Exist begs to differ.

Here's an introduction from the site creator:

> Generating high-quality anime faces has long been a task neural networks struggled with. The invention of StyleGAN in 2018 has effectively solved this task and I have trained a StyleGAN model which can generate high-quality anime faces at 512px resolution. To show off the recent progress, I made a website, “This Waifu Does Not Exist” for displaying random StyleGAN faces

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So we discussed my weaponization of StyleGAN as "This Waifu Does Not Exist"](https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html) and the traffic (>600k unique visitors so far and like 2TB bandwidth), but what you may have missed is... I added 70k anime-plot-summary-prompted GPT-2 text snippets to go along with the 70k StyleGAN faces. And Obormot has enhanced his grid demo to be a sliding infinite grid of waifus, which you sort of have to see to understand.

Enjoy, if that's the right word.