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[–]Athakaspen 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Were these generated with machine learning?

[–]RepubliqueDeBen 8 points9 points  (1 child)

[–]gwern 3 points4 points  (0 children)

(/u/PrimaryPizza is an alt account I made for this experiment.)

No, not MGM. I actually generated all of the OP images using the newest GAN, StyleGAN. These are the top 10% I selected from 1000 samples, de-duplicated, denoised a little with waifu2x, and then 5% edge cropped off the bottom & sides to hide the more obvious background artifacting. I was curious if they could pass for real Holo artwork. Looks like the answer is, half-way. Which is not too bad!

For details, videos, samples, model downloads, and discussion, see https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1093701790971953152

Hope you guys enjoyed them.


I also did Asuka: https://www.reddit.com/r/evangelion/comments/apmkjm/brighten_your_monday_with_some_asukas_album_of_130/

[–]NowlasWolf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mhmm now this is quality content. Upvote!

[–]SirDerpingDerp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Talk about convenient timing! I was about to start looking for a new profile pic. Thanks for the album, this will definitely help out!

[–]VMorkva 3 points4 points  (1 child)

u/Holofan4life would be proud.

[–]GregTheMad 2 points3 points  (1 child)

How many of those are cropped from porn?

[–]gwern 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's difficult to say. The original Danbooru2017 corpus is overall ~9% porn, but when I was cropping faces to train the StyleGAN generating these, I tried to delete low-quality and obviously pornographic face-crops, and then similarly when selecting generated samples for this submission. So there's influence, perhaps, but you can't really say if any of them are 'porn' or not. None of them are copied from the dataset, they are the GAN's best attempt at learning how to generate anime-like images. And GANs don't really 'intend' anything so you can't ask if it 'intended' to draw a porn-like face.

[–]Si1ent_Blade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good man

[–]510ducksauce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May the wise wolf bless you.

[–]Mr_Lakiro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Now this is some good stuff