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Websites & web apps Human-directed

This Person Does Not Exist

A single page that shows a new photorealistic face on every reload, none of which belongs to a real person.

By
Phillip Wang
Year
2019
Country
United States
Category
Websites & web apps
Purpose
Education
Degree of AI
Human-directed
Tools
StyleGAN

Where the human came in

Wang's contribution is the framing: one face, one sentence, no interface. He made the public understand GANs in a second.

Why it is not slop

The site is a demonstration of a risk, built to make it visible. Minimal, honest and still the best explainer of synthetic media.

Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.

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