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Creativity in the Age of Synthetic Realities

Creativity in the Age of Synthetic Realities

Revised version of my Synthetic Realities talk presented at Emerce eDay: https://emerceeday.nl/session/creativity-in-the-age-of-synthetic-realities/

Andy Polaine

October 10, 2019
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  1. Creativity in the age
    of synthetic realities
    Design and Innovation from
    Accenture Interactive
    Andy Polaine
    Group Director – Fjord Client Evolution
    @apolaine | @fjord
    trends.fjordnet.com
    pln.me/synthetic
    Emerce eDay, Amsterdam, 2019

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    Deep Fakes

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    The Post's View
    Deepfakes are dangerous — and they target a huge
    weakness
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    DEEPFAKES ARE dangerous — not only the synthetic videos themselves but also the way they
    promise to blur reality in a country where facts are already up for debate.
    "Deepfakes" have changed the idea that seeing is believing - and could have a huge impact on how future political campaigns unfold.
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    Democracy Dies in Darkness
    There's a terrifying trend on the internet
    that could be used to ruin your reputation,
    and no one knows how to stop it
    Lisa Eadicicco, Business Insider
    10.07.2019, 17:01
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    The rise of deepfakes, or videos created using AI that can make it
    look like someone said or did something they have never done, has
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    Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele has a warning for viewers about trusting material they
    encounter online.
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    BuzzFeed News Reporter
    Posted on April 17, 2018, at 11:26 a.m. ET
    Sitting before the Stars and Stripes, another flag pinned to his lapel, former president
    Barack Obama appears to be delivering an important message about fake news — but
    something seems slightly...off.
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    In fighting deep fakes, mice may be great
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  4. Fake Olds
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    Image: Wikimedia
    Stalin removes Nikolai Yezhov, 1940

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  6. Cover ©1982 National Geographic
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    Image ©Gordan Gahan
    National Geographic, 1982

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    Photoshop 1.0, 1990

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    Andy Polaine – Design in the age of synthetic realities
    Stories (and Sharpies) are a more
    potent technology than Deepfakes.

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  9. “There is nothing so amazing
    that we can’t get used to it.”
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    Andy Polaine – Creativity in the age of synthetic realities
    Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me

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    The rapid pace of
    synthetic media

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    Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis. Andrew Brock, Jeff Donahue, Karen Simonyan
    Hi-fidelity synthetic imagery
    Dogball

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    Synthetic People

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    Four years of GANs
    Ian Goodfellow: https://twitter.com/goodfellow_ian/status/1084973596236144640

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    StyleGAN: https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan

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    Vid2Vid: https://tcwang0509.github.io/vid2vid/

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    Jurassic Park, 1993
    Expression & Pose Editing
    Deep Video Portraits: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11714

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    Few/Single Shot Living Portraits
    Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models:
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08233v1

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    The willing
    suspension of
    disbelief

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    “As soon as it works, no
    one calls it AI anymore.”
    - John McCarthy, 1955

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    lilmiquela
    Venice Beach
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    36,346 likes
    lilmiquela
    *Nicki voice* Let's go to the beach, beach!!! That is all. Have a blessed day bbs
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    Lil Miquela at the beach. Do synthetic people need sun protection?
    Given the rise of virtual Instagram inhuencer Lil Miquela (who currently has 1.6m followers) and her forays into music,
    advertising and interviewing, it seems likely that the Vrst full GAN-generated artist is around the corner.
    Lil Miquela
    https://www.instagram.com/lilmiquela/

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    Hatsune Miku
    https://www.instagram.com/hatsune.miku_/

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    AI news anchor
    https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1098221286491271168

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    Synthetic media
    and the future of
    creative
    industries

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  24. Synthesise people, faces, objects, animals
    Capture and re-generate poses and movement
    Modify facial expressions
    Synthesise places and landscapes
    Clone voices
    Generate completely new imagery
    Generate writing
    Effortlessly erase anything from images/video
    Generate GUIs and UX flows
    Link them all together in workflows
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    We can now:

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    Digital
    Fashion
    Image: Instagram – Daria Simonova wearing digital clothes by Carlings.

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    Data Grid
    https://datagrid.co.jp

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    Creative Selection
    StyleGAN: https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan

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    AI-assisted
    design

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    UIzard
    https://uizard.io

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    Adobe’s Content-Aware Fill

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    Social media ex-removal?

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    Designer as
    AI curator
    Image: “squishybrain” on Ganbreeder

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    Ganbreeder
    http://ganbreeder.app

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    Text to image synthesis
    AttnGAN: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10485

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    iSketchNFill
    https://github.com/arnabgho/iSketchNFill

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    Runway ML –
    Photoshop 1.0
    of AI & Design
    http://runwayml.com

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    Runway ML

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    Designers’ AI
    assistants
    will become
    valuable IP
    Technology
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    1 August 2019
    AI system 'should be recognised as
    inventor'
    By Leo Kelion
    Technology desk editor
    An artificial intelligence system should be recognised as the inventor of two
    ideas in patents filed on its behalf, a team of academics says.
    The AI has designed interlocking food containers that are easy for robots to grasp
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    Synthetic Twins

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  41. “The whole thing looks very
    natural and no one would
    likely even notice without
    prior knowledge of the
    feature.”
    Andrew O’Hara — AppleInsider
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    Image: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil
    Andy Polaine – Fjord – Towards a mindful service design – Service Design Days 2018
    Images: Will Sigmon @WSig
    https://twitter.com/WSig/status/1146146914985009154
    Corrected
    Uncorrected
    Attention Correction

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  42. 30 July 2019
    Chinese vlogger who used filter to look younger caught
    in live-stream glitch
    By Dhruti Shah & Kerry Allen
    BBC News & BBC Monitoring
    Your Highness Qiao Biluo's real appearance (left) and one of her filtered faces (right) from an earlier
    livestream on Douyu
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    Synthetic
    Twins
    AI Avatars

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    Snapchat’s
    gender-swap lens
    Nev Schulman - host of MTV’s Catfish
    https://twitter.com/NevSchulman/status/1127724161718202368

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    Emotion intervention
    Emotion inference
    Real time emotion inference using CycleGAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaQQVrAv9ok

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  45. “You’ve got to rely on people’s ethics.
    You don’t cheat just because the
    technology is available. Machines aren’t
    ethical or unethical — people are.”
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    Brian Steffans, graphics editor at The Los Angeles Times, 1987.

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  46. Thank you.
    Andy Polaine
    @apolaine @fjord
    pln.me/synthetic
    Emerce eDay, Amsterdam, 2019

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