This Cat Does Not Exist
February 20, 2019 10:25 AM Subscribe
Something something AI to generate (terrifying) images of cats.
Let us all be grateful those cats do not exist.
posted by umber vowel at 10:36 AM on February 20, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by umber vowel at 10:36 AM on February 20, 2019 [5 favorites]
Except this fez cat who I love (reposted from person-not-exist thread)
posted by moonmilk at 10:37 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by moonmilk at 10:37 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
A side project This Person Does Not Exist, for which this post might be a double.
posted by Nelson at 10:45 AM on February 20, 2019
posted by Nelson at 10:45 AM on February 20, 2019
Huh, I got one with a shutterstock watermark.
posted by smcameron at 10:47 AM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by smcameron at 10:47 AM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
This Cat Does Not Exist
but it should.
posted by penduluum at 10:47 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
but it should.
posted by penduluum at 10:47 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
Significantly, aggressively worse at generating realistic cats than the human equivalent is at generating people, which is a fact I find comforting for some reason.
posted by penduluum at 10:50 AM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by penduluum at 10:50 AM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
Significantly, aggressively worse at generating realistic cats than the human equivalent is at generating people, which is a fact I find comforting for some reason.
The person version you are referring to (I think) generates only head shots. If you had a training set of cat head shots, this one would do much better.
posted by demiurge at 10:56 AM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
The person version you are referring to (I think) generates only head shots. If you had a training set of cat head shots, this one would do much better.
posted by demiurge at 10:56 AM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
Sometimes there are transporter accidents.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 11:04 AM on February 20, 2019 [9 favorites]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 11:04 AM on February 20, 2019 [9 favorites]
I literally just 'awww'ed at an artificial cat, which is upsetting.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 11:08 AM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 11:08 AM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
I got this one and refreshed no more!
posted by wellifyouinsist at 11:12 AM on February 20, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by wellifyouinsist at 11:12 AM on February 20, 2019 [6 favorites]
I went ahead and made a few perfect beautiful babies for you all.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 11:20 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 11:20 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
You'd think Octocat could share with True Loaf
posted by moonmilk at 11:24 AM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by moonmilk at 11:24 AM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
> but it should.
No..... no, I don't think it should.
posted by Leon at 11:27 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
No..... no, I don't think it should.
posted by Leon at 11:27 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
This nightmare fuel does not exist
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 11:39 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 11:39 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
Oh no no
posted by Enemy of Joy at 11:44 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by Enemy of Joy at 11:44 AM on February 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
These are like frames from a very glum Cyriak video.
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:46 AM on February 20, 2019 [9 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:46 AM on February 20, 2019 [9 favorites]
Ai weirdness commentary on this from last week:
posted by GenderNullPointerException at 12:03 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
In many ways, generating cats is more of a challenge than generating human faces, since cats can be in so many different poses. It has an easier time generating texture than figuring out where all the legs and tails go.Also, Grumpy Cat and probably Lil' Bub are disproportionately represented.
posted by GenderNullPointerException at 12:03 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
This Person Does Not Exist will be wonderful for people building sockpuppet avatars. No more needing to steal a real person's face that can be reverse-image-searched- just grab one of those.
posted by BungaDunga at 12:13 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by BungaDunga at 12:13 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
At first I got nothing but cute cats and was thinking "I'm not seeing what's frightening. Some of these are adorable." and then I got a Cthulhoid mushroom cat from out of the dark recesses of my mind. I understand now.
posted by Ashwagandha at 12:15 PM on February 20, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by Ashwagandha at 12:15 PM on February 20, 2019 [6 favorites]
Les yeux sans visage
Cat without a face
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 12:20 PM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
Cat without a face
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 12:20 PM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
Mixed feelings. On the one hand, that's a pretty freaky looking cat. On the other, it's clearly defending the home against invasion by an alien life form, which is always handy in a pet.
posted by taz at 12:42 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by taz at 12:42 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
I want to start an AskMe thread to name each and every one of these.
posted by BrashTech at 12:52 PM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by BrashTech at 12:52 PM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
You could just call Janelle Shane for cat names.
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:15 PM on February 20, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:15 PM on February 20, 2019 [6 favorites]
Un-zippity-bop!
posted by Devils Rancher at 1:25 PM on February 20, 2019
posted by Devils Rancher at 1:25 PM on February 20, 2019
"I literally just 'awww'ed at an artificial cat, which is upsetting."
Just wait until you hear about this thing called 'Pixar'...
posted by el io at 1:32 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
Just wait until you hear about this thing called 'Pixar'...
posted by el io at 1:32 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
el io: Already cried at that today, yes.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 1:50 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 1:50 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
Can anyone view the page’s source? I can’t, and I have hypotheses but no certainty about why.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:53 PM on February 20, 2019
posted by Going To Maine at 3:53 PM on February 20, 2019
The page is just serving a JPEG, there's no HTML source.
posted by BungaDunga at 4:10 PM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by BungaDunga at 4:10 PM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
But it seems like the image should have a name, or some other way to call it up?
posted by Going To Maine at 4:36 PM on February 20, 2019
posted by Going To Maine at 4:36 PM on February 20, 2019
The AI is immune to the mind warping fields that cats use to control us... it is showing us their true appearances!
posted by otherchaz at 4:53 PM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by otherchaz at 4:53 PM on February 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
The browser looks at the path to try and name the file if you download it. You can also, I think, set HTTP headers to suggest a filename. But this appears to have neither and mobile Chrome just calls it "download.jpeg".
posted by BungaDunga at 5:17 PM on February 20, 2019
posted by BungaDunga at 5:17 PM on February 20, 2019
Ordinarily you'd redirect to a path that would give a file a name at least temporarily but this site is definitely trying to be as minimalist as possible and just serving a single image and letting your browser deal with it. Without a path or any info in the HTTP header (other than a header saying that it's a JPEG) the browser just has the contents of the file, with no name attached.
posted by BungaDunga at 5:20 PM on February 20, 2019
posted by BungaDunga at 5:20 PM on February 20, 2019
Unlike the faces thing, this time I understand why people are reacting with surprise. I wonder if it would be less strange if they only used tightly cropped cat faces as input.
It's been posted before, but I just discovered edges2cats, which sort of an interactive version of the same. (But, with a very different internal structure.)
posted by eotvos at 5:54 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
It's been posted before, but I just discovered edges2cats, which sort of an interactive version of the same. (But, with a very different internal structure.)
posted by eotvos at 5:54 PM on February 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
I started to freeform names of these kittos while I was refreshing this and came up with Scrimmage, Houlsouth, Perrens and Migator. This might be a great technique for the next time I've run out of fantasy names.
posted by coolxcool=rad at 6:46 PM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by coolxcool=rad at 6:46 PM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
"this cosmic horror should not exist"
posted by idiopath at 9:54 PM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by idiopath at 9:54 PM on February 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
No..... no, I don't think it should.
ahh the humble beginnings of longcat
posted by numaner at 2:17 PM on February 21, 2019
ahh the humble beginnings of longcat
posted by numaner at 2:17 PM on February 21, 2019
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Also missed opportunity for the domain icanhasexistenz.com.
posted by wildblueyonder at 10:30 AM on February 20, 2019 [9 favorites]