Show HN: Fursona Editor

[+] pgz|5 years ago|reply

I never expected the day would come when an AI to generate furries would be the top entry on HN.

[+] _tw9j|5 years ago|reply

You underestimate the number of furries in tech.

[+] falcolas|5 years ago|reply

No kidding. How dare people have a kink that I don't approve of.

/s

[+] throwaway744678|5 years ago|reply

This redirects to https://colab.research.google.com/ - you are identified by your google account (if any).

Perhaps we could change the URL?

[+] zitterbewegung|5 years ago|reply

It redirects to there because colab can be used to run the model.

You can visit the url in a private window and download the notebook without using google.

[+] arfafax|5 years ago|reply

Sit tight. Colab blocked the notebook without explanation for some reason. Working on updating the main URL to forward to the new notebook.

Here's a link to a working notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1O5XbpMRU9i83mLAiTrM...

[+] twic|5 years ago|reply

HTTP status 569: Awoo Limit Exceeded

[+] arfafax|5 years ago|reply

It's back up. Thankfully I used a domain to redirect to the notebook, so I can just swap it out with a working version if it breaks again.

Wish I knew why Google blocked the original notebook, though.

[+] WillDaSilva|5 years ago|reply

Not what I expected when I saw the title "Show HN: Fursona Editor". This is really cool. It kinda feels like sophisticated art theft in a way, but by that line of thinking you could argue that all creation of art is sophisticated art theft.

[+] zitterbewegung|5 years ago|reply

I think it's a transformative work (in both the literal and the figurative sense).

[+] ddlsmurf|5 years ago|reply

Notebook loading error There was an error loading this notebook. Ensure that the file is accessible and try again. Error loading https://apis.google.com/js/client.js

https://drive.google.com/drive/?action=locate&id=1h-y--ip8qr... Error loading https://apis.google.com/js/client.js Error: Error loading https://apis.google.com/js/client.js at HTMLScriptElement.k.onerror (https://colab.research.google.com/v2/external/gapi_loader.js...)

[+] jmt_|5 years ago|reply

Is this anything but another "this face is not real" clone, i.e same model just different training set?

[+] webmaven|5 years ago|reply

The "This Fursona Does Not Exist" site is such a clone, this is an interactive editor for exploring the latent space in that dataset.

[+] nkrisc|5 years ago|reply

So this generates cartoon character or something?

[+] arfafax|5 years ago|reply

Something like that.

[+] lilboiluvr69|5 years ago|reply

I would like to know more about how the different options are selected. How do we know how to tune something like "fur color" in styleGAN? Can arbitrary options be added?

I'm very interested in all this, but still pretty new to machine learning in general.

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