{"id":296006,"date":"2019-02-15T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T06:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=296006"},"modified":"2019-02-15T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T06:45:49","slug":"this-person-does-not-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/296006-this-person-does-not-exist.html","title":{"rendered":"This person does not exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/53280-this-person-does-not-exist-gans-website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>This Person Does Not Exist<\/strong><\/a> website is making Internet users distrust whether photographs of people they see online are real.<\/p>\n<p>Every time users refresh this website, they are shown a new, seemingly real image of a person.<\/p>\n<p>However, all of these images are in fact not of real people, and are being created by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Uber software engineer Phillip Wang, the website uses an algorithm called a generative adversarial network (GAN).<\/p>\n<p>This particular GAN, StyleGAN, was created by a team of Nvidia researchers and is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NVlabs\/stylegan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GitHub<\/strong><\/a>. This technology uses a database of real faces to formulate new, realistic images of non-existent people.<\/p>\n<p>Wang created the website to show the power of GANs and said that the technology is not limited to human faces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their research group have also included pretrained models for cats, cars, and bedrooms in their repository that you can immediately use,&#8221; said Wang.<\/p>\n<p>Wang hopes the website will bring attention to this powerful technology.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/295866-chinas-president-now-rules-apples-chinese-app-store.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">China\u2019s president now rules Apple\u2019s Chinese App Store<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0This Person Does Not Exist website is making Internet users distrust whether photographs of people they see online are real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":296030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[27887,57458,57460,3838],"class_list":["post-296006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-ai","tag-fake-faces","tag-gan","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296090,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296006\/revisions\/296090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}