"how their creators want them to look, perfect and unflawed."
What the world need is really more Barbies and Kens...
Hello, your regular AI roundup. We have a video of Mark Zuckerberg making a bad joke at F8, a neural network that generates fake whole human bodies, with their clothes on, and more. Enjoy. AI at F8: Mark Zuckerberg kicked off Facebook’s annual developer conference F8 last week in Silicon Valley with his usual spiel of how its …
PornHub *always* needs more B & K "performers" (that will work for tips) - and - The Daily Mail is already scraping the barrel on the celebrity 'C/D/E and F-lists' to get enough material to fill up "The Side-Bar of Shame".
Rachel Maddow could be replaced by a bot with a Microsoft Tay core and it would improve the show!
Ah, Looker. One of those SF films that takes a couple of simple premises and really runs with them. The scenes with Michael Caine in his apartment losing time are wonderfully spooky without resorting to cheap scares.
Haven't seen it in ages, but I bet it holds up pretty well.
Why do you think "AI" (or, in this case, an image-generating GAN, which hardly qualifies as "AI" in any sane sense of the term) is necessary for this? We've had Photoshop for a while, you know. Hell, people have been doctoring photographic evidence basically as long as there's been photographic evidence.
Do GANs and other ML-based techniques make it easier? Yes, but that's of relatively little interest to the state, which can afford to do it the hard way in the rare case where it would matter. (For mass oppression, the state just roles out the organized violence.) ML-based image fraud is mostly of interest to the sorts of trolls and agents provocateur who post crap to social media, as with "deep fakes".
This makes the 2002 movie S1m0ne with Al Pacino appear rather prescient..