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You're right, see 100s of examples posted by users here: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...

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I guess it's impressive you can train a network to do that, but it doesn't look much better than a photoshop filter.

Now that AI figured out how to press the "posterize" button, the singularity is surely just around the corner.

Yeah, glad there were examples, saved me trying it. Results are nowhere close to what I expected. Zero of them looked like anime at all, for one thing. Many truly did look like one or two basic Photoshop filters had been applied, and that was it.

The Squid Game one looks kind of okay but the rest are uninspired.

There is one further down for a Comic-Con and it looks really good. The rest less so. But it’s a good filter.

I guess it's impressive you can train a network to do that, but it doesn't look much better than a photoshop filter.

I'm not sure if you're saying it's bad because you're underestimating how powerful some Photoshop filters are, or if you're saying it's good because you aren't.

It wouldn't surprise me if those filters already use ML.

Those definitely don't look like the anime I watch

Right, I don't see the "anime" part. This just looks like one of the thousands of nameless photo editing software filters.

Yes, Anime has many different kinds of aesthetics but not what this generates. Perhaps it should be renamed PaintingGAN or CartoonGAN?

Surely the primary reason for the name is much fewer people would click and share otherwise. It's clickbait with software.

I was looking forward to seeing if I was puni plush or shoujo style, instead I got this photoshop filter. Where is my spiky hair??11?

To be honest, it looks pretty weird... the eyes are asymmetrical..

The Snap filter that does something similar to this looks much better, is live, and doesn't use a ton of deep learning I think :)

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