This x does not exist

For about a month or two now, I’ve been observing lots of people on Twitter sharing some form of “this x does not exist”. X could refer to Pokemon characters, tarot cards, or even their favourite painters:

AI-Generated Artworks @ai_curio

This Windows XP Does Not Exist

January 24th 2022

132 Retweets1,065 Likes

Daniel Solis, birds suddenly appear @DanielSolis

These Birds Do Not Exist I trained an AI on public domain bird illustrations from old books. Ornithologists and birders, I'd LOVE it if you were able to still ID some of these weirdos. I'll share some of the "normal" results first, the ones that kinda sorta look like real birds.

January 30th 2022

3,016 Retweets9,960 Likes

crunchie @0xCrung

“the mozilla firefox/google chrome tarot card” (CLIP guided diffusion)

February 15th 2022

32 Retweets307 Likes

AI-Generated Artworks @ai_curio

This Jean-Pierre Ugarte does not exist

January 12th 2022

4 Retweets55 Likes

It was very clear this was some form of fine tuning on top of a multimodal image generation model such as ruDALL-E or CLIP Guided Diffusion.

Yesterday, I had a moment myself and so I decided to experiment with a fun google colab notebook which allowed me to easily create some variations of this theme of my own:

Bakz T. Future 🇨🇦 @bakztfuture

This Pokemon Card Does Not Exist colab.research.google.com/drive/15vFLeep…

February 22nd 2022

1 Like

Bakz T. Future 🇨🇦 @bakztfuture

This Syd Mead Does Not Exist (RIP)

February 22nd 2022

2 Likes

I wanted to share this notebook today with you just because I think it’s fun and I encourage you to try it out. It could also be worth sharing as an activity with your own children or the kids in your family (safely).

The process takes a few minutes - you basically download some images locally from the web, upload them to a hosted google colab folder, and configure the notebook to pull images from there. Even with the default settings, once you run the cells in the notebook, you’ll get some incredible results!