The rude awakening comes later

Each time you refresh the site, the network will generate a new facial image from scratch…

As we’ve seen in discussions about deepfakes, the ability to manipulate and generate realistic imagery at scale is going to have a huge effect on how modern societies think about evidence and trust. Such software could also be extremely useful for creating political propaganda and influence campaigns.

ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com is just the polite introduction to this new technology. The rude awakening comes later.

ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces, by James Vincent, 15 February 2019. Image: Collage of portraits of people who do not exist, created by the code at http://thispersondoesnotexist.com. Showing the full faces was too freaky, so I decided to crop it to just the eyes. Click through to see the full faces.