This starts to be more than a bit concerning. The faces in this post look like pretty normal humans. They could be social media shots. However, they were generated by a recent type of algorithm: generative adversarial network, or GAN. https://blog.knowbe4.com/these-incredibly-realistic-fake-faces-show-how-ai-can-now-mess-with-us
Sadly, I fear that fake identities will use other peoples' real pictures because that will spread chaff, given that the social media companies and LE are being so reckless about face reco. Not very nice for the "mug". Literally.
Thispersondoesnotexist.com is face-generating AI at its creepiest February 13, 2019 https://thenextweb.com/artificial-i...t-com-is-face-generating-ai-at-its-creepiest/
A lot of them seem strange. Especially issues about hair. And inconsistency regarding wrinkling and wrinkle patterns.
And the result for pictures of cats: New AI-Powered Site Generates Horrific Images of Cats February 20, 2019 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...wered-site-generates-horrific-images-of-cats/
Can you guess which face is real, and which is computer generated? February 20, 2019 https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/20/can-you-guess-which-face-is-real-and-which-is-computer-generated/
Why ThisPersonDoesNotExist (and its copycats) need to be restricted March 3, 2019 https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/03/...exist-and-its-copycats-need-to-be-restricted/
Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist The algorithm whips up photorealistic models and outfits from scratch April 30, 2019 https://futurism.com/ai-generates-entire-bodies-people-dont-exist
100,000 free AI-generated headshots put stock photo companies on notice For all your royalty-free photo needs September 20, 2019 https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20875362/100000-fake-ai-photos-stock-photography-royalty-free
Yeah, this is cool. Another source of faces for personas Although, actually, it's better to generate locally. I wonder if you could generate a face, based on your own, that was different enough to be ~unrecognizable, yet similar enough to emulate with makeup.
The technology that's "irresponsible and needs to be restricted immediately" is in fact the use of facial biometrics by authentication and identity systems, and by uncontrolled AFR surveillance. Why should you accept an unreliable, vastly intrusive and scammable biometric (non-repudiation) system which is also disastrous for privacy? Face recognition is a crock, yet this paper is attacking the symptoms.
I find them useful for avatar photos because (1) they're not misusing a real person's photo, (2) they're created on the fly so they should be unique, and (3) they protect my privacy from face-recognition scanning by companies like Facebook.
