Generating Fashion Using AI

Nobody presented it as changing the fashion industry. It's generating new outfits in a video, and that's super cool.

I don't think anybody's moving too fast or missing fundamentals here, at least not yet. This is all brand-new, so people are just having a fun time exploring.

The influencers can also be generated by AI (or even just 3D modelling), since so much of the marketing is digital. And it's already happening (mostly in asian countries):

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-created-influencer-...

These videos are just demonstarting the concept design part created by something not even designed for this specific use case. It's true that making a product from a concept design is another problem. But it's not hard to imagine that AI could be trained specifically for this on actual design plans and using physically accurate cloth simulation in the training loop to generate something that could be actually built. After all if AI can improve protein folding predictions why not cloth folding :). (OK, it' not completely the same but both are about 3D structure).

We already have some pretty good sub-millimeter level cloth simulations (not using AI but could help AI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrdkyv0yXxY

And of course people are excited when they have a new tool they can use, they try to find more usecases for it and some will work out some not. In this case they even have the open-source blueprint for the tool so they can finetune it for their own ideas.

What exactly are the fundamentals?

The transformer revolution is pretty foundational and the inability to see the societal impact of this technology can only be explained by a lack of imagination.

Majority of peoples time is spent in digital worlds, the ability to create synthetic images, text, etc. is going to radically alter the way we spend our time online. Both malicious and marvelous use cases will be discovered, but to hand-wave it all away as a "Dotcom bubble vibe" is tech cynicism at its worst.

AI does point us in an exciting new direction though. This stuff is baby steps and currently at day 1 of germinating a whole new kind of fruit 20yrs down the line. And that's all it needs to do, to be revolutionary. We need new tools and directions.

At least with the photorealistic prompts, there is always this feeling of "this doesn't look right". Right now it's easy to pinpoint what it is. Usually is a completed distorted face. But they might get better at this. But probably there will always be that "uneasy feeling".

I suspect there will be a lot of companies that build businesses out of chaining models together for specific kinds of users. The more you can focus on a niche, the more you can paper over some of the limitations in the models.

There is Twitter too https://twitter.com/UnshushProject

I started with a lot of enthusiasm but discovered you need to be A LOT more social (or lucky) to make people see things!

Next time maybe with some code and a Show HN it will be more fun.

An environmental catastrophe with today's technology.

But if we can fix that, say make the clothes with a 3d printer out of yesterday's recycled clothes, with energy from renewable sources, then that sounds pretty cool actually.

Adding a bit more imagination to your initial idea make the entire idea actually a net-positive. People can start recycle clothes (good for the planet), with a new design everyday (good for people who like that) and it provides a business (good for the economy).

You wear AR glasses and can choose whatever virtual fashion you want. Other people wearing glasses too can also see your outfit. So you make something physical into something virtual, thereby not having fast fashion at all.