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I was about to say I recognised Toriel [0] and was suspicious it might have been memorising a bit too much.

As for the idea that furry are has too many similarities… I don’t think so. The variance in fursona body morphology is huge. For example, one thing I didn’t notice in this set was Sergals [1].

[0] Undertail. And no, not like that.

[1] https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Sergal

Undertale* though the typo makes sense given AI is on topic

Now I feel stupid. :)

Oh, I thought it was intentional, seeing as, uh, that spelling is used to refer to p*ographic fanworks of that work of fiction

Arfa excluded a few categories like ponies and scalies to keep it from being too broad for StyleGAN. Sergals would probably get excluded as part of that.

And protogens:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiSs-sGclcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HwdsjXEbOQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGOFU62wVco

Oh, so that’s what that critter is called. I had been wondering.

They took off when people started showing up at cons with protogen partials.

The dataset grabbed has both fursonas and fan art in it.

There are not many furries with fursonas that look like Judy, though I'm not sure why that would be gross.

Fursonas tend to mirror the style the content one was watching when they were a kid, so once kids who grow up watching Zootopia become old enough to enter the fandom, then those individuals might bring in a 3D style, but it has yet to happen.

What does that say that's gross?

It doesn't need to be gross to dislike the weird baby talk "uwu" stuff. Although seeing it in much more technical contexts will make me laugh - https://github.com/mpaland/printf/issues/15 - "Scawy big no functionality at all UwU #15"

Wow, that person seems to do this in all of the issues they file. They're also really good at filing issues despite the baby talk. All of their issues are well-researched and immediately actionable with a surprising amount of debugging completed before the initial submission.

Devs tend to have a penchant for the absurd. The details may change along with the zeitgeist, but the personality quirk itself seems to be ubiquitous across the decades.

>Devs tend to have a penchant for the absurd.

Ok this is just a stereotype that's not true.

:: notes reply comes from a commenter with a name that sounds like a fursona ::

...you're messing with me, aren't you. :D

not really sure what you mean, can you elaborate on why you would say that?

FWIW, I've met more normies in my 10years of software development than absurd people. Absurd people are just memorable, it's a bias.

If you're actually curious, this username was stolen from an absurd Atlanta based rapper named blunt fang and I get more weed culture association than furry association with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDal4GCyEJA

I don't agree with their framing but xxxxFang is a common naming scheme of wolf furries.

"uwu" and "owo" are emoticons people started vocalizing ironically, not baby talk.

I'm learning about some of my personal biases through this, apparently. I just assume furries/fursonas/furry fandom/whatever it's called is about sex.

In my experience, any activity or community enjoyed by humans has a subgroup for “that thing, but also with sex”. It’s more of a reflection of what it means to be human than anything to do with the means of that expression.

> I just assume furries/fursonas/furry fandom/whatever it's called is about sex.

Nope! :3

https://faq.dhol.es/@Soatok/furry-fandom/is-furry-a-sex-thin...

It's a common misconception. We're more about community than anything.

(That's not saying that sex doesn't happen between adults, but that's not what it's about, for everyone.)

I mean it could just be that us non-furries aren't attuned to the subtle differences and conventions of fursonas.

What’s most interesting to me vis-a-vis other GAN portrait generators is the range of illustration styles employed here. It’s like a GAN that generates both manga and western comic-art faces without any incongruous hybrids.

I saw a lot of verbatim copies of both the fox and the rabbit from Zootopia (possibly with shades of Disney's Robin Hood) and distinctive elements of Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokemon characters. I think it was trained on popular anthropomorphic media, not just furry art, and there's some overfitting. I don't think stylistic inspiration can quite explain its fondness for cheeky foxes wearing green.

Pikachu: https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed12878.jpg https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed05116.jpg https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed49143.jpg

Sonic: https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed22797.jpg https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed95651.jpg https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs-2x/seed35704.jpg

It was trained on images from e621[1]. Considering the most popular characters[2] on that site, you can see where the neural net got it from.

[1]: The most popular furry booru. A booru is an image board where everyone can edit the tags of images. Strict tagging rules and advanced search operators make it easy to find specific images. A safe-rated only mirror is available at e926.net.

[2]: https://e926.net/tags?search[category]=4&search[order]=count

There might be traces of Pikachu in that, but it's definitely Renamon. https://digimon.fandom.com/wiki/Renamon

More-comparable straight-on image here: https://neoencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Renamon

This one looks almost straight up from the movie: https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/v2/jpgs/seed10592.jpg

I guess training on the source that has a massive crush on Zootopia wasn't the best choice for ‘doesn't exist’.

Also, those Sonics are apparently sourced from the gender-swap category.

It’s still very realistic considering how many people’s actual OCs are just a popular character with a flood-fill of a different color.

* original character https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/original-character-do-not-ste...

Oh no, I don't mean to diminish the achievement on display here. It's very impressive how many of these could pass for original, hand-drawn artwork, and in such a wide variety of styles too.

Oi! Reminds me of Punkemon's Punkachu!

http://studiohunty.com/punkemon/

http://studiohunty.com/punkemon/ptown/punkachu.html