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"In many ways, generating cats is more of a challenge than generating human faces, since cats can be in so many different poses", Shane writes on her blog.
"It has an easier time generating texture than figuring out where all the legs and tails go. I've noticed that for some reason, whenever it generates kittens, one is normal and the rest are haunted. There must be something difficult about pictures containing multiple subjects.
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With humans it was even worse...
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They have unsuccessfully tried sourcing cat’s images from the internet, because when it generated some cats, it added meme text to them, assuming that white blocky lettering is just part of what “cat” is.
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They have also attempted to generate cats with the Shutterstock watermark, although actually spelling “Shutterstock” proved tricky for it.
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"Another delightful thing about its internet-derived dataset: quite a lot of the cats look an awful lot like Grumpy Cat. She’s only one cat, but she had a profound impact on what StyleGAN thinks cats look like", Shane writes.
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