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AI seems to be used as a buzzword here, I think this is just a (well-done) 3d model, seeing that they're created by an art studio: http://locusanimation.com/

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Yeah, reading the title I thought it would be an image generated by a CNN or a GAN or something, or at least a chatbot piped to a (possibly generated) 3d model but it's nothing like that.

Maybe they're trying to say "AI" to mean "aritifical person" like in William Gibson's Idoru... but it's not even close.

It's one of the most egregious uses of "AI" I've seen in the last few years and I fully expect people to come up to me and say "have you seen the latest AI from Korea?". I'll be in the corner, pulling on my pigtails.

Yeah the title is downright wrong, if not misleading. It had me thinking that thispersondoesntexist got even better.

Gotta love the infinite well of bullshit that advertising is. So here we have CGI faking a person, and then being passed off as "AI" in turn.

I think it's pretty apparent that they are using a "body model" for the body as well which is kind of interesting in itself... It used to be that we'd use CG characters to replace the body of actors, now it's the other way around...

Wait, they're just photoshoping her face? That's a whole less impressive than I thought.

I can't prove it but there's evidence of that in the photos (difference in light transport in the facial skin vs body skin, some inconsistencies in shadows, masking issues around the hair , nail polish, the clothing is a little "too real").

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