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GANs are interesting because the output, while in the same style as the input, is almost always surprising and interesting.

— Alexander Reben

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People tend to give generated content more credit than they should as far as it’s “intelligence” goes. It is natural for people to want to anthropomorphize technology.

Still, some of the output veers into the figurative. In a relatively short time, it could draw human faces and some creatures that look like animals. How do you imagine DADAGAN evolving?

It’s hard not to antropomorphize DADAGAN, because it’s easy to play around with the idea that it is making art. Where do you draw the line?

There is more that can be done by cleaning up and sorting through the data set. For instance, it can be trained on drawn faces, or many images of a particular style.

We see many things as alive, it is part of our social and survival instincts. Drawing a line is a philosophical question which comes down to each individual’s interpretation of life and consciousness.

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