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robbiebarrat / art-DCGAN

art-DCGAN

Modified implementation of DCGAN focused on generative art. Includes pre-trained models for landscapes, nude-portraits, and others.

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What it is

Modified implementation of DCGAN focused on generative art. Includes pre-trained models for landscapes, nude-portraits, and others.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by hour3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-10-25 19:34:26 UTC to 2018-10-26 01:59:53 UTC.

012018-10-25 19:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-25 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 25, 19:002018-10-25 20:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-25 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-25 21:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-25 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-25 22:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-25 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 25, 22:002018-10-25 23:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-26 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-10-26 01:00:00 UTC to 2018-10-26 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 26, 01:00

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Oct 25, 19:002018-10-25 19:00:00 UTC2018-10-25 20:00:00 UTC101
Oct 25, 20:002018-10-25 20:00:00 UTC2018-10-25 21:00:00 UTC000
Oct 25, 21:002018-10-25 21:00:00 UTC2018-10-25 22:00:00 UTC000
Oct 25, 22:002018-10-25 22:00:00 UTC2018-10-25 23:00:00 UTC000
Oct 25, 23:002018-10-25 23:00:00 UTC2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 26, 00:002018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC2018-10-26 01:00:00 UTC000
Oct 26, 01:002018-10-26 01:00:00 UTC2018-10-26 02:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Interesting. Considering the readme is the first thing the person sees on the github link and nothing about the license itself precludes other contracts, could the bolded text in this context be considered a verbal contract? Or at least enforceable as such? Edit: Actually, there was a change to the license surrounding pre-trained models and sales back in June, so it's even baked into an obvious contract. A lot of the licensing conversation here is somewhat mooted by this. https://github.com/robbiebarrat/art-DCGAN/blob/master/LICENS...
In Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
Oh gosh, he even links an issue where one of the guys who sold the painting (Hugo Caselles-Dupre, hence the username Caselles) literally asks for help setting up. So Hugo asks for help with setup because he can't get it to work, and Robbie (original author) replies "working on a rewrite of the codebase, should be soon" while Hugo keeps pushing for updates. Turns out it's trickier than expected so Robbie says "sorry, might take longer". Hugo's response? > "Ok, really disappointed. Could you at least provide the code for the 128x128 Gan in Keras ?" He's literally sitting there for months pushing for poor Robbie to do the free work for him so that he can try to profit from it. Maybe they really did make a lot of changes to the model. But from the conversation in that issue thread and the striking similarities between the painting and the oth
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er ones that Robbie had made over a year ago, it doesn't feel likely to me that that's the case. Hopefully some justice will come out of this situation. As an aside, according to his bio Robbie's only 19 (and already doing this level of research!). Sad to see younger researchers being taken advantage of like this. https://github.com/robbiebarrat/art-DCGAN/issues/3#event-140...
In Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k
Twitter thread from the author of the original algorithm: https://twitter.com/DrBeef_/status/1055285640420483073 (worth reading the whole thread, the art collective reply) GitHub link: https://github.com/robbiebarrat/art-dcgan The README was last edited 6 months ago and contains the bolded text: "When using any outputs of the models, credit me. Don't sell the outputs of the pre-trained models, modified or not. If you have any questions email me before doing anything."
In Christie’s sells its first AI portrait for $432k

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