[HN Gopher] This house does not exist
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       This house does not exist
        
       Author : andreasklinger
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-09-05 20:49 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | lauri_jo wrote:
       | Not sure if my experience generalises well, but a few of those
       | houses generated were impossible to build.
        
         | Turing_Machine wrote:
         | That's not all that uncommon with human architects, either, at
         | least if you go by what the contractors say.
        
         | meltedcapacitor wrote:
         | Yeah same, more a collage generator than an architect.
         | 
         | It's less convincing than the other projects like this, wonder
         | if it's a uniquely hard problem or a weakness of this
         | particular implementation.
        
         | userbinator wrote:
         | Indeed,
         | https://thishousedoesnotexist.org/assets/houses/3027276.png
         | reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_cube
        
           | OJFord wrote:
           | What am I missing? It looks a bit whacky and expensive/James
           | Bond villain lairy, but what's inherently unbuildable?
        
             | userbinator wrote:
             | Look carefully at the perspective.
        
       | xhrpost wrote:
       | Neat, but feels like it was trained or prompted for luxury homes.
       | I clicked threw a couple dozen images but everything had that
       | style of multi-million dollar mansion/condo with a pool and only
       | glass for walls. Nothing even remotely suburban or rural. Curious
       | if this is due to the prompts (assuming this is SD sourced) or
       | due to the training of the AI model.
        
       | dimensionc132 wrote:
       | In some parallel universe it does
        
       | burlesona wrote:
       | It's interesting to me, the model does not know what a house is
       | like, it knows what _pictures of houses_ are like. So it does a
       | good job of making pictures that look like pictures of houses.
       | But if you look closely, a lot of the details are really weird,
       | unbuildable, or just non-sensical.
       | 
       | All of the image-gen models have this problem - look at the hands
       | and faces in the generated images of people and there are often
       | bizarre deformations.
       | 
       | It's fascinating because it's the opposite of how children learn
       | to draw. They tend to think about the pieces that make a thing
       | and then try to put all the pieces on paper, and they end up
       | making a drawing that (for instance) looks nothing like a person
       | but has two eyes, a nose, a mouth, etc. in roughly the right
       | relation to each other. (They rarely draw ears though!) The child
       | is thinking about "what makes a face a face" and then trying to
       | represent it. The ML model is sort of distributing pixels in a
       | probabilistic way that comes up with something very similar to
       | the pixels in a sample image in its training set, superficially
       | much better than a kids drawing and yet in some ways much worse
       | upon close inspection.
        
         | smegsicle wrote:
         | perspective and shadows in this one are particularly avant
         | garde
         | 
         | https://thishousedoesnotexist.org/4036194
        
       | onefish wrote:
       | I don't know if it's just me, but it seems to only generate
       | luxury homes in a contemporary minimalist / modernist
       | architectural style. Not once did it generate anything resembling
       | a Tudor mansion or Victorian cottage or Midwestern rancher or
       | split level.
       | 
       | Nothing really wrong with that and it's neat anyways, but seem to
       | represent its own sort of strange bias in a sense.
        
         | Turing_Machine wrote:
         | It does seem to love lots of glass and flat roofs, doesn't it?
        
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       | rozularen wrote:
       | the next level would be the A.I making "sense" of the interior
       | spacing or the layout in general so it could generate more
       | accurate houses
        
         | nwomack wrote:
         | Even better than making sense of it, but just give the AI all
         | of the parameters that you want to build or remodel a house and
         | have it give you a 90% complete model that an
         | architect/designer can finish off, reducing overall cost and
         | time.
        
       | pax wrote:
       | Noob questions: Are these images that cheap to generate (once the
       | model is trained) that we can get a new one fast on each browser
       | refresh?
       | 
       | Are all the _this x doesn't exist_ generators based on similar
       | scripts, only the training datasets differ, or are they somewhat
       | tuned for the specific domain?
        
       | nivertech wrote:
       | Also:
       | 
       | https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
       | 
       | https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/
        
       | OrangeMonkey wrote:
       | I feel like we are at the tipping point where the ability to
       | generate scenes/faces/houses/art that can reliably fool human
       | senses becomes commonplace.
        
         | guerrilla wrote:
         | What? None of those look like real houses... It looks like
         | video game quality at best and almost all of them have some
         | aspects that make no sense at all.
        
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