Fun fact: This double agent process can be played against itself in an accelerated manner. This is a GAN, a Generative Adversarial Network. One of the nifty things accomplished with it so far are style transfers.
https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html a fun example.
hahah I'm an artist as well and I'm pretty concerned about such thing, take a look at these:
https://thisfursonadoesnotexist.com/
https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html
I think we're not far from such doomed day when AI make fanart, truly scary times
https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (photo-like portraits done by AI. Look at the teeth to see that they aren't real!)
https://campaignwiki.org/face/gallery/alex/random (drawings made from random components)
https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html (bonus: randomly generated anime girls using same technology as the faces above)
Just recently, neural networks became scary at drawing lifelike (and artsy) pictures and writing texts that don't seem bot-generated at the first glance.
This Waifu Does Not Exist begs to differ.
Here's an introduction from the site creator:
> Generating high-quality anime faces has long been a task neural networks struggled with. The invention of StyleGAN in 2018 has effectively solved this task and I have trained a StyleGAN model which can generate high-quality anime faces at 512px resolution. To show off the recent progress, I made a website, “This Waifu Does Not Exist” for displaying random StyleGAN faces
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So we discussed my weaponization of StyleGAN as "This Waifu Does Not Exist"](https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html) and the traffic (>600k unique visitors so far and like 2TB bandwidth), but what you may have missed is... I added 70k anime-plot-summary-prompted GPT-2 text snippets to go along with the 70k StyleGAN faces. And Obormot has enhanced his grid demo to be a sliding infinite grid of waifus, which you sort of have to see to understand.
Enjoy, if that's the right word.