This X Does Not Exist

I assume they generate a new image per time period [e.g. a second] and show the same image to everyone visiting the page rather than doing a generation per page load, simply because 1) they're so fast, and 2) sometimes if you refresh fast enough you can get the same image (at least one some TDNE sites). Would love to read some actual setup details though!

- this dark age does not exist (viz. the fall of the Roman empire)

- this ice age does not exist (viz. the host of ice age scares from the late 60's to 80's)

- this apocalypse does not exist (viz. Mayan end of ages, comet scares, ...)

- this world famine does not exist (viz. Paul Ehrlich's entire oeuvre/eschatology)

- this nuclear holocaust does not exist (...yet?)

- this Siberian climate does not exist (viz. the UK going polar around 2020)

- this snow-free UK does not exist (viz. the opposite prediction of the one above, the inspiration for e.g. Marillion's "Seasons End" [1])

- these dead lakes do not exist (viz. the 'acid rain' scare in the 80's-90's)

- this end-of-oil does not exist (viz. "Peak Oil" in 2000, then 2020, then 2010)

- this technological eschaton does not exist (viz. the Y2K scare)

- this rapture does not exist (viz. the countless prophecies of rapture)

- this hockey stick does not exist (viz. most of Al Gore's infamous "An Inconvenient Truth")

In a few years time we'll be able to add 'this climate catastrophe does not exist' to this list while we'll be bombarded with dire predictions on whatever new apocalypse is awaiting us. Which, same as before, will be added to this list while an even newer scare awaits. That is, unless that nuclear holocaust prediction ends up becoming reality of course - time will tell.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYxzOIojerA

Maybe the cat images look so real as compared to generated human faces because our brain is tuned to recognize human faces and can perceive the tiniest flaws, but not so with cat faces.

I don't think my search proves anything however. With hundreds of millions of cat pictures on the web, I wonder if simple transformations on a real photo -- like flipping or slightly rotating the image, squishing it vertically or horizontally by 10%, adjusting the color -- would be enough to hide the original from Google or TinEye?

There were also a couple questionable ones where they had very studdy cheeks, but were tricolor (calico, tortishell, patched tabby). They distinctly looked like intact males, but you need two x chromosomes to have a tricolor cat. Or chimerism, of course, which I've learned over the years makes it impossible to ever say a specific pattern isn't possible.

It did get me wondering though, with the fact that most apparently male cats with tricolor markings genetically have an extra X chromosome, whether they would still get the big stud cheeks. I'd imagine they would, since they've got a Y chromosome and then I assume the X chromosomes turn on and off randomly the same way they do in females.

In less nerdy news, if you go through about a dozen pictures, you'll find that some of them are out of proportion or have their mouths open, but have the coat color in the mouth.