generative adversarial networks

"A new website called This Person Does Not Exist went viral this week, and it has one simple function: displaying a portrait of a random person each time the page is refreshed. The website is pointless at first glance, but there's a secret behind its seemingly endless stream of images. According to a Facebook post detailing the website, the images are generated using a generative adversarial networks (GANs) algorithm.

In December, NVIDIA published research detailing the use of style-based GANs (StyleGAN) to generate very realistic portraits of people who don't exist. The same technology is powering This Person Does Not Exist, which was created by Uber software engineer Phillip Wang to 'raise some public awareness for this technology.' "  - DPREVIEW