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John Byrne
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| Posted: 16 February 2019 at 9:25pm | IP Logged | 1
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Given some of the shoddy imitations I’ve seen accepted by some fans as the real thing, it’s hard to get too worked up about computer copies. Six of one... and six of the other.
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Koroush Ghazi
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| Posted: 16 February 2019 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | 2
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Did a bit more research, looks like comics are relatively safe from being taken over by computers. This MIT article points out the unique nature of comics:
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The text and pictures work closely together; often so closely that the story cannot be followed using the pictures or text alone. Even then, the reader has to make significant inferences and extrapolations when jumping from panel to panel. Much detail has to be filled in by the reader.
“It is what the creator hides from their pages that makes comics truly interesting, the unspoken conversations and unseen actions that lurk in the spaces (or gutters) between adjacent panels,” say Iyyer and co. It is in deciphering these details that the story is forged in the readers’ imagination. |
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Mitch Denoyer
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| Posted: 17 February 2019 at 1:26am | IP Logged | 3
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I hit the refresh button dozens of times. It seems the AI doesn’t know there is such a thing as black people.
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Conrad Teves
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I seemed to recall getting numerous ones? Statistics can be funny sometimes. Trying it now, it only took six tries.
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Mitch Denoyer
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| Posted: 17 February 2019 at 2:21am | IP Logged | 5
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I just did another 50 and all I got was one dark toned Arab. None of them looked African.
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Conrad Teves
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| Posted: 17 February 2019 at 2:50am | IP Logged | 6
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Does this look African to you?
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Leigh DJ Hunt
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| Posted: 17 February 2019 at 4:02am | IP Logged | 7
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Funny how the eyes often look 'wrong'. And sometimes the hair. But otherwise...creepy
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Mitch Denoyer
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Conrad => She does indeed look African to me. I wasn’t lying though. I tried and tried and couldn’t get one to come up. I’m curious if the algorithm for this thing is supposed to reproduce the ethnic distribution of people on earth or if I was just having bad luck.
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Conrad Teves
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I believed you. :) I suspect it's just luck. I have no idea if there is anything in the algorithm to skew the distribution. I just tried again, and out of fifty, I only got two. However, a solid third were Asian, and 3/4ths of everyone were female (children included).
Worth remembering that in random distributions, evenly spread out is the least likely configuration.
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 17 February 2019 at 10:20am | IP Logged | 10
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" Funny how the eyes often look 'wrong'"
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That's the same thing I noticed, Leigh. Probably because I was looking for something off though. I do wonder if a randomly generated doppelganger will be created. How freaky would it be to click thru this and see "yourself"!
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 17 February 2019 at 10:47am | IP Logged | 11
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An addendum to what I wrote above; ...or what if you seen your future self!
From that site, this looks like an older Mark Ruffalo to me.
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Adam Schulman
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| Posted: 17 February 2019 at 1:51pm | IP Logged | 12
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An older, possibly Hispanic Mark Ruffalo.
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