This Person Does Not Exist

[Gyrofrog]

I’m faking one right now!

[LemoUtan]

What’ll you do next though?

[LeprechnGangstr]

Pretty sure some of my weapons-grade acne in high school looked like this.

[LutherBlisset]

Plot twist: these are all real people with some Photoshop filters applied, but the author of the webpage is an AI which wants to find out how much of deviance from an unshopped pic humans tolerate until they feel uncanny.

[dug]

It’s all good clean fun until somebody clones Boris Johnson

[anon15258403]

When I moved away from my hometown (population ~200k at the time, and fairly well regionally isolated), I noticed that there was a subtly different feeling I would get observing random strangers, people seen on the street throughout the day etc. Pretty soon realized that this was a byproduct of the effect of having subconsciously recognized most of the townspeople I’d been gradually exposed to over the years, even non- acquaintances, sort of an ambient awareness of others existence without individualized circumstantial specifics.

Wonder about possible interesting conundrums that this software exercise invokes, what if some of these people do exist? Not in the sense that the image was in any way based on them, but rather that if there was a coincidentally close enough match, could it count as a legal likeness? and have the protections that a persons likeness has?

[ficuswhisperer]

I almost believed it was a person but their human suit doesn’t seem to fit quite right.

[IRobot]

In “Anathem” a future is described in which nothing seen on [the net] can be assumed to be real… in fact, statistically most things there are not real. How eill things change if most videos and images available are not real… who might we elect then…

Never mind. It can’t be worse!

[Pensketch]

@go_robot_go

It also appears to have difficulty distinguishing between hair and hats.

That, or it’s very fashion forward.

[FGD135]

Spray-on hair.
I hear it’s all the rage these days.

[Bunbain]

@anon15258403

there was a subtly different feeling I would get observing random strangers, people seen on the street throughout the day etc. Pretty soon realized that this was a byproduct of the effect of having subconsciously recognized most of the townspeople I’d been gradually exposed t

I think this is plausible, but maybe insofar as your particular brain is wired. See, I tend to experience an opposite effect when I travel, often seeing people who strike me as familiar. “Hey, isn’t that the guy from the, ah, no, that’s not him.”

This doesn’t happen in my hometown (about the same order of magnitude in size as yours), I immediately know whether I recognize someone or not. Hmm, maybe a different manifestation of the same phenomenon.