核心概念
The author showcases the launch of "This Anime Does Not Exist" website, highlighting the use of AI-generated images and the impact on art generation.
要約
"This Anime Does Not Exist" website launched with almost 1.8 million AI-generated images by Aydao's Stylegan2 model. The site features a creativity slider, showcasing how increasing creativity values enhance image beauty and detail. Users enjoyed samples demonstrating better colorization, stability in artistic style, and unique effects like mitosis. The model also produced writing resembling Japanese characters but with an otherworldly twist. Popular images, videos, gifs, and statistics from the website's traffic are discussed. Despite initial costs and challenges, hosting the site was a successful project that attracted significant traffic and engagement within the AI artwork community.
統計
This Anime Does Not Exist was launched on January 19th 2021, showcasing almost a million images (n=900,000 at launch, now n=1,800,000 images), every single one of which was generated by Aydao‘s Stylegan2 model.
After the first day, the website had served over 100 million requests, using over 40TB of bandwidth.
At launch, the largest contributor to traffic by country was the United States, followed by Russia.
Domain ‘thisanimedoesnotexist.ai’: for two years from NameCheap: $110.
Image generation: 1,800,000 images were generated with a batch size of 16 using a g4dn.xlarge instance at $0.526 per hour on-demand.
引用
"The more entropy you give me, the more it makes me want to smile!" - Creativity Slider description.
"If you have a technical background and are looking for an area to specialize in...I'd strongly suggest machine learning/artificial intelligence." - Author's encouragement.