This Startup Does Not Exist

[dooglius]

Anyone else get the sense this is more of a Mad-Libs style fill-in as opposed to the sort of AI-generated content found in other thisXdoesnotexist sites?

[gwern]

As author of 'This Waifu Does Not Exist' https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ (which does use StyleGAN+GPT-2-small, with even better anime-finetuned GPT-2-small samples coming tomorrow or so), I feel a little insulted that the 'X Does Not Exist' brand is being diluted by Mad-Libs-style efforts. The snowclone exists to show off neural net work specifically, not just any old aleatorics.

[nkozyra]

Clearly. The images are all just stock "...male-105.png," the page format is exactly the same.

It's cute but less interesting than, say, thisdoesnotexist.

[tenaciousDaniel]

Yeah. Oddly enough, this should be the easiest variation on the this-does-not-exist idea, but it's the least believable.

If I didn't know it was an experiment, I'd think it was a bot-driven ad-fraud popup site or something.

[smudgymcscmudge]

It’s fitting for a fake startup generator to use fake ai. Most of these fictional startups would probably be faking their ai as well.

[aboutruby]

Reminds me more of Faker: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js

[iliketosleep]

I've often felt that most startup landing pages are just a variation upon a theme, and this site proves it to be true, literally. They have managed to distill it down to the basic elements of unoriginality that constitute the local maxima of startup landing pages today. Personally, whenever I see one of these kinds landing pages it serves as a huge red flag.

[kbumsik]

FYI: Press the refresh button. It generates a different fake compay every time you refresh it.

Looks like it is kinda an AI research but I cannot get any detail behind it.

[luxuryballs]

“It’s like Uber, but for healthcare” hahaha man do you want to tip your surgeon extra today?

[beaconstudios]

I think this one's just a madlib.

[mlevental]

www.thispersondoesnotexist.com

[phoe-krk]

This is shockingly real.

https://i.imgtc.com/DawgjdH.png

[levesque]

Pretty sure they are not using a GAN, but it is still a lot of fun.

https://imgur.com/a/t3qeKtr

[ainar-g]

So, Abavu is basically Amazon?

[enriquto]

The manually generated code seemed to produce funnier outputs

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/

[lmilcin]

This is boring, you drop a bunch of resources and templates and then use random() to choose templates and resources to fill them in.

How about going more meta with thisthisdoesnotexistdoesnotexist.com?

[cubano]

Right...at this point, skewering sites that build auto-generated sites would have been way more fun and interesting.

[projectramo]

For those who were as confused as I was: Every time you refresh the page, it comes up with a new startup, with new people and titles etc.

[tetrep]

Reminds me of the startup generator: http://tiffzhang.com/startup

HN discussion (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856

[ben_w]

Amusing, but it feels like a template where some variables are filled by random selection from an array. Closer to SimCity 2000 newspapers than to thispersondoesnotexist.com

[castratikron]

"Unend: Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you're too lazy."

[segfaultbuserr]

> "Locer: is using the blockchain to create AI-Chatbots"

This one is hilarious... Is it like, you need to wait for the block time (20 minutes) to get one reply from the bot?

[elymar]

https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-based-platform-unv...

[zepolen]

I laughed at this one:

"Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you're too lazy."

[sundvor]

Art meets life.

[Svip]

Its address generation is a bit wonky. It doesn't respect address formats of different countries. It assumes all addresses follow this format: "<Street name> street no. <number>, <5 digit postal number>, <City>".

An actual working random address generation would be kind of cool. But this really isn't. Plus, as far as I know, postal numbers are available from OpenStreetMaps' database or Google Maps.

[vvilliam0]

http://www.piedpiper.com/

[turc1656]

anything Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti is involved in is a guaranteed winner.

[graindcafe]

Love this one:

Disous - Aggregate the long tail and drive discovery "Disous is the new Google Plus"

Blockchain & AI, Funding and Fresh are just a few characteristic of Disous. But we offer a lot more!

Find us at the office

Rinkle- Gailey street no. 97, 61663 Vatican City, Vatican City

[jjakque]

Another synthetic content generator to add to https://github.com/paubric/awesome-doesnotexist

[Sommer]

Joke's on you, that's just a result from thisrepodoesnotexist.

[lulzx]

This one is hilarious: https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net

[abarringer]

I'd like to see an AI driven predictor of which Google service/api will not exist in five years so we can go ahead and not use it now.

[mcv]

What's next? thisworlddoesnotexist.com? Generate an entire random world with people and everything in it from some ML experiement?

[saint_fiasco]

That's just Dwarf Fortress.

[est31]

What if we already lived in such a world? Generated for no particular reason just for "hey look I can generate worlds randomly". I guess you should enjoy your life until the tab is being closed!

[martin-adams]

Maybe someone is looking right at us now and is about to press the refresh button.

[mlthoughts2018]

thisthisstartupdoesnotexist.comdoesnotexist.com

followed soon after by a version of the Paperclip Maximizer that converts all matter into digital memory substrate to handle the constant buffer overflow of “thisthisthisthis...”

[_asummers]

That IS the end game of VR, in some capacity.

[avip]

Orbis Tertius

[faceru]

This neuron is divine. May I ask, Neuronka generates both text and icons and images or only text? And if she generates icons too, then where does she look for them, or where does she get them from, I can't believe that she draws the icons herself?