This article is from the WeChat public account: qubit (ID: qbitAI) , author: Guo Yipu, Photo by Atikh Bana on Unsplash
A spit of old blood.
The lady you swipe left and right on the dating software may not be human anymore.
Accurately, although they have a human face, there is no such person at the back of the face. (Of course there are no monsters) .
Because these young ladies and sisters may just be fake names made by the dating software platform, which is used to create a thriving atmosphere for the platform, similar to Weibo ’s zombie fan and Zhihu Sanwu Trumpet.
The photos of the younger sister are from the familiar face generation AI:
StyleGAN.
Yes, use Intel’s AI to make your own money.
Also, there are fake sisters not only in dating software, but also in advertisement posters and school student manuals.
But it’s very sad to think that the beautiful lady in the photo doesn’t exist at all:
What kind of beauty are there in the world?
“The dummy” is from Argentina
The company that created this brain hole is an Argentine design company called Icons8.
At first glance, you can see that it is a good friend of designers and PPTers, and provides many free icons for free.
But when designers are creating, they not only need icons but also some characters.
However, photos of people are a kind of double headache. The first is to consider the copyright of the photos, and the second is to consider the right of portraits of the people on the photos.
So, if you use the face created by AI, it will be too convenient. AI will not send a lawyer letter anyway.
Icons8 took photos of 70 models through studios around the world and used them as a database to train StyleGAN.
Now StyleGAN generates one million dummy photos for this company every day. They choose 100,000 and put them on their generated.photos website. Every registered user of the website can download up to 10,000 photos every month. .
You can choose directly on this website, which gender, age, skin color, pupil color, hair color, hair length, and emotion photos you need, just like creating a pinch face of a character at the beginning of the game.
For example, black long straight Asian girl who needs a smile:
Another example, blonde white girl:
However, if you want some magical configuration, such as a blue-eyed Asian girl, there are only two of them, still like a pupil:
However, Icons8 states that these photos are currently for non-commercial use only.
Wait … the dating software mentioned at the beginning is not a commercial use?
Certainly, Icons8 restricts the commercial use of others, but not its own commercial use.
Ivan Braun, the company’s founder, said that their business now has three customers: an American university, a dating software, and a human resources planning company.
Advertising with “dummy”
I want to use the face generated by GAN to make money, not just the previous Icons8 company.
There is also a company called Rosebud AI. They are not simply “selling faces”, but attaching different faces to various bodies so that they look like a complete portrait.
The pasted portraits can be customized. Faces on the same body can look like Europeans, Asians, Africans, and other nationalities. Skin color, pupil color, hair color, and facial characteristics will change You can even show different emotions or different makeup.
This service is mainly sold to companies with global operations.
When the product needs to be sold to people in different countries, the company does not need to find models in each country to shoot a group of products separately.It is enough to change the nationality of the model directly on a photographed version, and you can make posters, product manuals and other promotional materials in different countries.
This not only saves production costs, but also improves efficiency.
Finally, will the rich girls / man who appear in blindfold advertisements in various App information streams be GAN-generated “dummy”?
Reference link: https://icons8.com/articles/ai- generated-faces /
This article comes from WeChat public account: qubit (ID: QbitAI) author: Guo Yipu