AI randomizes and animates scenes from a single image

SinGAN is a generative AI that can, among other things, create random variations of an image (or animate it) without knowing what it is an image of. The official implementation is on Github and shows pretty landscapes:

It can also accomplish useful design tasks such as harmonizing color gradients and adding illusory resolution to blurred images.

But I feel that a humorous yet disquieting portrait of the President of the United States of America is in order, courtesy of Jonathan Fly.

SinGAN has never seen a human before, or any other image at all, but it tries its best to animate whatever you give it. It almost succeeds with the hair but then it gets into some genuinely perturbing territory. pic.twitter.com/Wlt28IiaUa

— Jonathan Fly (@jonathanfly) November 5, 2019

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