28 MAR 2023

15 Totally Fake Photos Of Celebs

AYAAN PAUL CHOWDHURY

a happy couple

Tesla CEO and Twitter Chief Elon Musk is now apparently dating General Motors CEO Mary Barra. But there may more to this image than meets the eye...

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an ai youtuber

All Your Tech AI is a YouTuber who provides insightful commentary and how-to guides on topics like stable diffusion, artificial intelligence, and ChatGPT.

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stable diffusion

He creates a working stable diffusion model that can produce photo-realistic images of anyone using 10-20 images of a person.

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musk in love

Using this AI tech, he has managed to conjure photorealistic images of Musk's apparent newfound love interest.

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ai image generation

By feeding AI systems with data on human physical features, it can generate images of people who look real but are not based on any actual person.

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brand new images

AI can generate completely new images based on specific parameters and inputs.

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non-existent

This technology is used in creative applications and can be used to generate realistic images of people that do not exist in the real world.

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ai photography

Photographer and lawyer Alper Yesiltas is using AI technology to imagine what young celebrities will look like in a few decades.

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young age(d)

Yesiltas has a series called Young Age(d), where popular celebs have aged forward many years.

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how?

Yesiltas uses several applications, including AI photo enhancer Remini, to create his compelling generated portraiture.

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persuasion

The most challenging part of the process is forming a face that's "persuasive".

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the balance

It is important to strike a balance between preserving a famous person's current likeness while including signifiers of their advanced age.

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subtlety

One must be subtle about the changes; otherwise, people may not believe the change or recognise the individual.

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next chapter

Yesiltas is currently working on a new project called Next Chapter, which imagines what fictional characters would look like if their stories continued today.

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