It's pretty impressive stuff to be sure, but the fakeness actually becomes very obvious once you understand what to look for. Something about the contour of the nose, the shape of the hair line, the way the teeth are aligned, etc.
In some dystopian future I imagine this will be part of our education to distinguish genuine content from fake news.
IMO, the fakeness is only obvious because your brain is already aware of the fact that they are fake. If you put any of those picture in another context like a Twitter/Facebook profile, almost everyone would be convinced that the person is real.
It's pretty convincing, until you look in between the lips where the teeth are supposed to show through. You see some very clear "AI smudging" artifacts that are a dead giveaway.
Less obviously:
- the eyelashes on his left eye look unrealistic
- the way the nose connects to the rest of the face (especially in the highlights) is too smudgy
- the texture and tone of the skin is very uneven, and again smudgy in various places, indicating that this is a Mr. Potato Head constructed image.
also a sort of 5 o'clock shadow around the jawline. Given that it's probably visible on most men in the dataset it just seems to have wrongly applied it to all of them
Following the advice to look for "fakeness" markers I would mention a few recurring ones:
1) unreal background (like monsters or distorted images)
2) strange-looking moles or birthmarks (white, very round or else)
3) distorted texts and logos on clothing
4) fabrics of the garments don't look real too
5) jewelry gets distorted or multiplied
6) glasses often look fake on the edges
Possible commercial application: Pornographic deep fakes of niche fetishes the don't have much original content because of how small the market is. Make the controls (race, number of people in scene, etc) toggleable by the user for maximal satisfaction...
Now to literally set this into motion and create movies which don't exist and claim copyright on those movies. Keep it up long[0] enough and produce a movie which _will_ exist or _does_ exist.
Nice one, reminds me of L-Space in the Discworld books.
"Additionally, one can read any book ever written, any book that will be written at some point and books that were planned for writing that were not, as well as any book that could possibly be written." [0]
I remember there being an archive that indexed a random stream of numbers from which you could download a range of random bytes, the idea being theoretically everything can be found within the dataset. I think it was done in protest of copyright or something like that.
I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
It's hard to describe, but to me the eyes always look "wrong". They look too symmetrical, like one is just a mirror of the other, with no compensation for lighting. But they also look asymmetrical, like one is just a copy+translate of the other, so the almond shape of the eye doesn't go in the right direction. That's not exactly right, but those are the feelings I get.
Yes, I think that the gender and race of the ears doesn’t always match.
Maybe gender is the wrong word, but some ears look too delicate for the individual or something.
I’d never guess these were fake if I saw one by itself though.
Yeah, I didn't spend as much time studying ears as I did eyes in art school, but now that you mention it, I see it.
Most of the "parts" of the face look like they've been clipped out of a magazine and photoshopped on. There are subtle errors in orientation that don't match the head's orientation. It makes the overall head look flatter than the lighting on the face would suggest.
Incidentally, I work in VR, and mismatch of depth cues between color and position are things that can cause simulator sickness.
I agreed with you, then flicked through a load. There is something going on that isn’t right. Having the eyes at the same coordinates each time is quite creepy too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22264164
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280