In case you want to sign-up and cannot get the client side validation to accept your password: they apply email validation to the passwords. You'll have to make up a password that's also a valid email address. In other words, something like: aBqwdHkjh@oqwIrd.com
I worked on a site supporting voter calls in 2004. There was no sanity checking of the usernames people proposed, so we had gems like leading spaces and multiple embedded spaces in the usernames. I figured some people signed up and then were never able to login.
So, I should upload a picture of my face to some random website/app to let it do something silly with my face and just let them have a picture of my face?
Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?
There was no “incident”. Some people read the terms of service and raised a kerfuffle over it because the devs are based in Russia. So far we have no knowledge nor reasonable suspicions of anything nefarious on their part.
Depends on where you live. Where I live, I know for a fact they have less than 1TB of storage for 1000 cameras, and law enforcement usually fights the city to get images of incidents, because they don't live over a day due to storage shortage.
Let me tell you a story from about 10 years ago. I was working for the DOJ and was invited to one of their secure datacenter (I was cleared). As we are walking through hallways, we sometimes had to cross through rooms of racks of servers to get to other server rooms. As we walked through past these racks of servers, I noticed they all said EMC on the cages. My coworker points out each room we walk through is housing storage and measuring a single server room alone, you'd find they were pushing a few petabytes. Just imagine what their storage solution looks like now. Thats just the DOJ.
Another story.. 15 years ago, not many people had a digital camera. Almost overnight, everyone and their mom had a digital camera. My dog has a camera.
If you think your image is not captured and stored somewhere for a near indefinite period of time, then you are just fooling yourself. 1984 came and went and we didn't even notice we're living a brave new world now
I can simultaneously believe both you and dr_zoidberg, just as I can believe the homophobic totalitarian dictatorships of the Soviet Union were simultaneous with the 60s summer of love and Denmark decriminalising all pornography. They did say it “depends on where you live”.
While I think this is great for generally alleviating the creepiness of surveillance while keeping the benefits, why do they have such little storage? I'd have thought storing it would be the easy part compared to maintaining the whole systems.
But then the page has a ton of photos (presumably submitted by users) that I can download. So perhaps the original photo isn't used and deleted, but the generated photo belongs to them.
Someone bothered to read the terms of service and noticed that they stated that you grant the app, the app's creator, and anyone else the app's creators chose, can do what-ever they like, when-ever they like, as often as they like, for as long as they like, with your photos and any other data they scrape from you as you use the app. This cause a bit of a stir, despite being pretty much what any similar ToS says.
And apparently the app creators are based in Russia which cased further concern to some.
Traditionally, GANs have. It wasn’t really possible to make high quality, high resolution GAN output until ~last year when researchers discovered how to progressively grow them from smaller resolution ones.
It loads but very slow. Most of them seem to be from the MIT IBM Watson AI Lab. I like that they used generated portraits of themself :D
Extract of "Why":
"AI Portraits Ars uses Artificial Intelligence to reproduce artistic human portraits, with different styles and levels of abstraction. For our model training, we adopt a data set of tens of thousands of paintings from the Early Renaissance to Contemporary Art. This type of portraiture is quite distinctive of the Western artistic tradition. Training our models on a data set with such strong bias leads us to reflect on the importance of AI fairness. In the previous work AI Portraits Celebrity, we explored the concept of micro-bias linked to the training data of only actors, which in some way imposes an actorization of the user's portrait: “a collection of faces from the society of spectacle that are sedimented in the neural network, and vaporize my selfie in a cinematographic self."
AI Portraits Ars introduces a very different type of bias with unique themes to explore."
Open dev tools and select networking - this page performs so many concurrent requests to load images, it will never work on medicore connection using mobile device. It even fetches/tries to renders one that are 404.
It's not that bad. The images are ~20kb each and it fetches ~10 images on the landing page. If I throttle the network to Fast 3G in chrome, the whole site takes about 10 seconds to load.
Why does every thread have to have the same pithy, cheap, criticizing comment about page load speed?
It’s demoing a GAN, not a shiny “blazing fast” web framework. They whipped this web frontend up in a day probably. It’s not supposed to be optimized for your 3G phone.
Didn’t the FaceApp incident _just_ happen? What’s the privacy policy for this website?
There was no “incident”. Some people read the terms of service and raised a kerfuffle over it because the devs are based in Russia. So far we have no knowledge nor reasonable suspicions of anything nefarious on their part.
Another story.. 15 years ago, not many people had a digital camera. Almost overnight, everyone and their mom had a digital camera. My dog has a camera.
If you think your image is not captured and stored somewhere for a near indefinite period of time, then you are just fooling yourself. 1984 came and went and we didn't even notice we're living a brave new world now
The information (if you trust it) is clearly there on the website.
Your photos are sent to our servers to generate portraits. We won’t use data from your photos for any other purpose and we'll immediately delete them.
So basically you have to trust them.
Someone bothered to read the terms of service and noticed that they stated that you grant the app, the app's creator, and anyone else the app's creators chose, can do what-ever they like, when-ever they like, as often as they like, for as long as they like, with your photos and any other data they scrape from you as you use the app. This cause a bit of a stir, despite being pretty much what any similar ToS says.
And apparently the app creators are based in Russia which cased further concern to some.
I was thinking maybe the limited resolution of these tools is to hide blemishes. I'd really like ultra high resolution versions of some of these.
https://towardsdatascience.com/progan-how-nvidia-generated-i...
Extract of "Why":
"AI Portraits Ars uses Artificial Intelligence to reproduce artistic human portraits, with different styles and levels of abstraction. For our model training, we adopt a data set of tens of thousands of paintings from the Early Renaissance to Contemporary Art. This type of portraiture is quite distinctive of the Western artistic tradition. Training our models on a data set with such strong bias leads us to reflect on the importance of AI fairness. In the previous work AI Portraits Celebrity, we explored the concept of micro-bias linked to the training data of only actors, which in some way imposes an actorization of the user's portrait: “a collection of faces from the society of spectacle that are sedimented in the neural network, and vaporize my selfie in a cinematographic self." AI Portraits Ars introduces a very different type of bias with unique themes to explore."
// edit: Added extract of "Why"
Site's down now...
Also, it loads more than 10 when you start scrolling.
It’s demoing a GAN, not a shiny “blazing fast” web framework. They whipped this web frontend up in a day probably. It’s not supposed to be optimized for your 3G phone.
no, whole site took ~10 seconds to load with chromes Fast 3G throttled network preset.