Fake news, deep fakes and AI-generated content. The web is rife with these things.
Nowgenerative adversarial networksare being used to create realistic things that don’t actually exist as well. There are all sorts of them too, some are incredible, some daft, all certainly interesting.
We’ve collected a few for your enjoyment.
This dog does not exist
This dog does not exist. Instead, it was created, along with the rest of the photo, using Google’s AI known asImagen.
Imagen uses artificial intelligence to create imagesusing just text input.In this case, that text was:
“A photo of a Corgi dog riding a bike in Times Square. It is wearing sunglasses and a beach hat.”
A very specific request with hilarious and brilliant results.
This beach does not exist
This beach does not exist, it was crafted usingNvidia Canvas, a free app that uses artificial intelligence to turn your digital paintings into lifelike images in real time.
We’vewritten about Canvasbefore and shown what it can do. It’s an impressive tool that’s remarkably simple to use and the results are impressive as well.
This bacon sandwich doesn’t exist
This BLT sandwich sure looks delicious, but sadly it isn’t edible because it isn’t real. It was crafted byDALL-E 2.
This is AI that’s built to create unique images with simple text input. We’ve previously shown off some ofwhat this artificial intelligence can doand it sure is impressive. The future of AI-generated content sure is going to be interesting.
This Cat Does Not Exist
Cats. You either love them or hate them. How do you feel about a cat that doesn’t even exist though?
TheseAI-generated catsare fairly convincing and they’re not likely to cause you any allergy problems, which is a bonus.
This Pony Does Not Exist
This Pony Does Not Existis a site that displays a colourful grid of AI-generated pony portraits created using Nvidia’s StyleGAN2 architecture.
With some clever wizardry, these creatures have been created, cropped, scaled and displayed in all their glory for your viewing pleasure.
This Car Does Not Exist
Here’s a site thatgenerates vehicles that never existed. All sorts of weird and wonderful cars that you’ve never seen on the road and never will.
This certainly isn’t the best one on our list though. Click through and refresh the page a bunch of times and you’ll see some really odd wheeled machines.
These people do not exist
The people that you see in this collection of images do not exist and never have. They have been created by a generative adversarial network that was originally developed by Nvidia, then later used by Phillip Wang to createThis Person Does Not Exist.
That site essentially uses artificial intelligence to randomly generate completely artificial and yet hyper-realistic portraits of people. People who have never graced the planet and yet could quite easily live next door to you.
This technology is quite disturbing when you consider what Inverse noted wheninterviewing the creator.
“In a society where pictures and images are the standard surrogates for “proof,” GANs….will soon allow anyone to furnish “proof” that any imaginable person did any imaginable thing….As an example, a nefarious actor could spread a GANs-generated video or image depicting a bogus event to incite riots, protests, or other potentially violent reactions online.”
Scary, but it doesn’t take away from how impressive this technology is.
This Meme Does Not Exist
Everyone loves a good meme. So why not apply artificial intelligence to create some new ones? That’s just what ImgFlip has done.
This meme does not existis the result and the images generated by the system are, well, something special.
This City Does Not Exist
This City Does Not Existis an impressive website showing various aerial images of Cities that don’t actually exist. And yet they look like something you’d find by scrolling through Google Maps or peering out of an aeroplane window. Land and sea collide with manmade structures, all created by artificial intelligence.
These Eyes Does Not Exist
This one might seem unusual when compared with the others, but it’s actually quite interesting.
The author/creator ofThis Eye Does Not Existexplains it nicely:
“Imagine that you are a makeup artist of some sort and you need to conceptualize some new eye makeup brand. But you have a problem, you are out of ideas. Generative adversarial networks allow you to create stuff that doesn’t exist, let’s say, photographs of eyes with makeup. This algorithm essentially allows you to “dream up” new stuff…”
It’s nice to think that generative adversarial networks could be used for good. As well as creating fake nonsense out of the ether.
