This Person Does Not Exist

What is This Person Does Not Exist

This Person Does Not Exist uses AI to create realistic faces of non-existent people in just a few seconds.

For the user, everything works very simply. As soon as you are on the website random face is generated. You can download the picture if you want. Refresh the page if you don’t like the person that you are seeing. If you see the same face, just wait a couple of seconds, and refresh the page again. The website shows the results of the generator’s work (which are updated every 2-3 seconds) not the generator itself.

This generator was developed by Nvidia using a neural network called StyleGAN, which was initially created to recognize fake faces and improve the performance of video cards. However, an engineer at Uber was able to take the code and create a random face generator that became popular online.

Users can simply go to the website and a new face is generated every few seconds, which they can download if they like. The article raises concerns about the implications of this technology and the potential for AI to create even more convincing fake content in the future.

Generate random human face in 1 click and download it! AI generated fake person photos: man, woman or child.

Generator of fake portraits

People tend not to think about the effect that neural networks have on our lives, because usually, we see the result of its work and not the “face” of a neural network. Perhaps that is why the generator of fake photos became the main topic of discussion for several weeks in the media devoted to technology at the end of 2020. Not everyone was able to guess that AI could generate a realistic face of a non-existent person in a couple of seconds. Fake portraits look very realistic and it’s frightening. If AI can create faces for itself and can text like real people, then what is going to happen next?

Generator of fake faces of non-existent humans

We are talking about the website thispersondoesnotexist.com (“this person does not exist dot com”) and are going to tell of the history and areas of application. The way the generator works will be explained further.

The AI face generator is powered by StyleGAN, a neural network from Nvidia developed in 2018. GAN consists of 2 competing neural networks, one generates something, and the second tries to find whether results are real or generated by the first. Training ends when the first neural network begins to constantly deceive the second.

An interesting point is that the creation of photographs of non-existent people was a by- product: the main goal was to train the AI to recognize fake faces and faces in general. The company needed this to improve the performance of its video cards by automatically recognizing faces and applying other rendering algorithms to them. However, since

the StyleGAN code is publicly available, an engineer at Uber was able to take it and create a random face generator that rocked the internet.