thispersondoesnotexist does not exist
Well! Uncle B was combing through his old bookmarks (the browser equivalent of rearranging your sock drawer) and discovered that thispersondoesnotexist.com is gone. Or, rather, the URL was bought by Stability AI and redirects to their product.
Confirmed by Reddit r/TPDNE a month ago. Though they don’t seem to know the story.
Stability AI’s product is called Stable Diffusion and it does a similar job to TPDNE, among other things. You’ve probably seen some illustrations created with it.
They offer a free Photoshop plugin, which got me all excited, but it only works with Photoshop 23.5 or newer.
I think my version is 9. Poop.
Anyway, TPDNE was always good for a fascinating half hour. The faces it generated were scary good – for the most part. It had problems with glasses, earrings, other people in the shot.
People used it a lot for things like fake Twitter profiles. I wonder if that played a part in its demise.
Oh, thiscatdoesnotexist is gone, too. It sucked.
March 30, 2023 — 7:49 pm
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