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This is maybe the most important question for mankind that has ever been asked, so let me ask it: Would it also be possible to use this method to generate new images of attractive, half-naked female humans on the basis of an existing database of such images?

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I gave it a try on anime images with 64px/128px WGANs for about a month back in March. No, it's not really feasible yet. GANs need restricted datasets; anime girl or cat faces, yes, anime girls in general, no, it never learns effectively. They need either more supervision (I thought StackGAN could probably handle it if you could feed in Danbooru tags) or better algorithms (PixelCNN? see my other comment, but the Reed et al 2017 samples are great despite tremendous diversity of images). Plus more GPUs.

Please don't do this here.

Ignoring the joke, this is actually interesting question to ask. I mean, yeah, there are some pretty scary, uncanny images of cats here, but some cats look almost… fine? So if these cat images are "creative" enough — this is almost a success.

But if you take a pencil and try to draw a cat yourself (assuming you are not a good artist) you have much higher chances to actually draw something "cute", than if you'd try to draw a woman. Human females look much more familiar, and there's something much trickier and more intimate to what you recognize as "cute" or "beautiful" in a human, than in a cat.

So, I'm pretty sure this NN would fail, but it's interesting what's actually required for it to not fail.

Someone did this, kinda, by inverting Yahoo's nudity detection network. The results were, uh, unsettling. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756462

Why not? Because of extreme nipple fear?

It would most likely be the #1 application of this technique if it worked in general.

No, it's because the cost it inflicts on the commons exceeds the benefit of an adolescent sex joke. If we get lots of the the latter, it will turn off and drive away some of the people we want here. Then more good users may start to leave as more good users start to leave—a vicious circle which it's basically our #1 job to (try to) make sure HN doesn't get caught in. So we're a bit hypervigilant about this.

Sounds like a great way to create even more unrealistic standards for beauty. Just a thought.

So a Minecraft for adults? Automated content generation?

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