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What are GANs?
A brief introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks
Why should we care about Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs for short) in the first place?
Well… take a look at the below images.
What do you think about them?
If you would see one of these images somewhere on the internet, would you suspect something?
Let’s say, for example, that someone follows you on Twitter and has one of the above images as a profile picture. Would you know how to tell if it is a fake image or a real person?
Probably not.
The people in the images above do not exist. These images are generated by a GAN. And they are almost indistinguishable from real people.
If you zoom in enough the images above you can see some weird artifacts that makes you realize they are fake. But, if they don’t have a big enough resolution, you would not be able to tell the difference.
GANs are not limited only to generating fake images of people, but they can be used for a large variety of other applications as well.
