Over time the generator gets better at
producing fake images, and the discriminator gets better at detecting them — hence the term «adversarial.»
Not exact matches
In Stalin's day, such phony
images required long hours of cumbersome work in a darkroom, but today anyone with a computer can readily
produce fakes that can be very hard to detect.
It remains to be seen whether online mischief makers — already
producing fake viral content — will use AI - generated
images or videos for nefarious purposes.
Yet GANs can also enable AI to quickly
produce realistic
fake images.
A «generator» attempts to
produce artificial outputs (like
images) that resemble real examples (actual photos), while a «discriminator» tries to detect real from
fake.