True to Life History vs. GenAI Mystery - Roman Emperors look like 21st Century Northern Europeans?

Using a neural network called Artbreeder, the artist processed over 800 sculptures, breathing life into the frozen faces of history and facing solid critiques.

The result is a stunning collection of AI-generated portraits, each a window into the past.
But the past emperors couldn’t have looked pale and chalky like a Northern European.

True to Life History Vs.GenAi mystery
The AI Optimist Episode 42 Playlist
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00:00 GenAI Roman Emperors now modern men?
00:59 Origins of the GenAI Portraits
04:16 Not True to Life? History buffs object!
07:04 Listen to your audience and adapt
08:00 How this works for you - GenAI Merch
10:05 Improve your data training, always.
11:00 Keep refining AI outputs or you'll get average results
11:49 Embrace the feedback
12:32 Be transparent with sources and GenAI
13:55 If GenAI could sing - Udio clip

This podcast explores GenAI through a 2020 project by Daniel Voshart, a Canadian cinematographer and VR designer who used machine learning to create photorealistic reconstructions of 54 Roman emperors.

Using a neural network named Artbreeder, Voshart processed images from around 800 sculptures to generate realistic facial features, enhancing them further with manual adjustments in Photoshop based on additional sources like coins and historical texts.