If you visit the This Person Does Not Exist website, you鈥檒l be greeted by a seemingly simple portrait. Reload the page, and another face will pop onto your screen. These people, however, do not exist in the real world.
The website, which , utilizes a complicated artificial intelligence algorithm developed by the American technology company NVIDIA Corporation. They call it a 鈥済enerative adversarial network,鈥� or GAN for short. It was trained using tens of thousands of online photos.
鈥淕enerative adversarial networks learn to generate entirely new images that mimic the appearance of real photos,鈥� NVIDIA .
The faces generated on the website come in all shapes, colours, genders and ages. And outside of a few glitches, most look shockingly real.
You can learn more about GAN in . The fake faces can be seen at www.thispersondoesnotexist.com.
