Do these "This Does Not Exist" sites do <i>live</i> image generation (they are so fast), or do they generate the images slowly over days and weeks and show us images from a cache?
The derivative empty-calories lowest-common non-creative aspect of AI generation is best exemplified by the "this idea does not exist" example where, guess what, the pretend new idea is an "YouTube for Lectures" which is as unoriginal a concept as anything you'd come up with if you really went hard for unoriginal...
Basically the lowest bar for art now very much is: could an AI have done it?
To the author: There is also <a href="https://thismountaindoesnotexist.com/" rel="nofollow">https://thismountaindoesnotexist.com/</a><p>(Disclaimer: I created that page)
Ironically, it seems like <a href="https://thisurldoesnotexist.com/" rel="nofollow">https://thisurldoesnotexist.com/</a> doesn't exist anymore and redirects you to some spam pages
GANs are really cool. They have recently been used in gravitational wave detectors to produce large numbers of glitches from a few thousand classified so far by Gravity Spy. The great thing about GANs is that they are super intuitive and the "adversarial" aspect is a compelling narrative for humans.
Having seen lots of ai generated imagery, I believe we are also collectively getting better at recognizing it from the real images. It's feels same as I used to see good 3d games back in 2000s as 'this looks so real' which are now just 'meh'.
I was planning to make a snarky comment here as follows: Ah yes, thisxdoesnotexist.com, let's repeat the fad from a few years ago when StyleGAN 1/2 was all the rage but has been widely outdated since. Still, it can come in useful when giving an AI talk to completely unsuspecting managers.<p>Though I was pleasantly surprised <a href="https://www.derekau.net/this-vessel-does-not-exist" rel="nofollow">https://www.derekau.net/this-vessel-does-not-exist</a> at least had been updating their approach, up to DALL-E 2 even. Not yet Stable Diffusion but I do applaud the effort.<p>(In all seriousness: just goes to show how quick things evolve in this space.)