{"id":8302,"date":"2021-10-11T19:55:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1369504"},"modified":"2021-10-11T19:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:55:31","slug":"ai-can-now-design-slicker-sneakers-than-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=8302","title":{"rendered":"AI can now design slicker sneakers than Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As someone who\u2019s bought the same model of sneakers three times in a row (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reebok.co.uk\/classic-leather-shoes\/49799.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Reebok Classics with the gum sole<\/a> FYI), I\u2019ve fallen slightly behind the fashion curve. But my footwear could soon evolve from pass\u00e9 to trendsetting.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/thissneakerdoesnotexist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">new website<\/a><span>flaunts thousands of unique sneakers that would make me a style trailblazer<\/span>. There is one small problem, however: none of the shoes actually exist. Each is merely the product of AI\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1369548 size-full js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"This Sneaker Does Not Exist\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-796x448.jpg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/ai-designs-sneakers-on-this-website-does-not-exist#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2021%2F10%2F11%2Fai-designs-sneakers-on-this-website-does-not-exist%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: The designs are displayed on a website called This Sneaker Does Not Exist.\" data-title=\"Share The designs are displayed on a website called This Sneaker Does Not Exist. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share The designs are displayed on a website called This Sneaker Does Not Exist. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>The designs are displayed on a website called This Sneaker Does Not Exist.<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1369548 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"This Sneaker Does Not Exist\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-280x158.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-796x448.jpg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-2-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p><span>The system<\/span><span>&nbsp;is the brainchild of <\/span><span>Stan van der Vossen, an <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\">AI<\/a> engineer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Van der Vossen first trained <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NVlabs\/stylegan2-ada-pytorch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NVlabs\/stylegan2-ada-pytorch\">a StyleGAN2-ADA<\/a><span>&nbsp;<\/span>model trained on around 50,000 images of sneakers scraped from websites.<\/p>\n<p><span>He ensured the dataset was sufficiently voguish by adding interesting designs found on Instagram and old webshops unearthed <\/span>via <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/web\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the Wayback Machine<\/a>. Boring sneakers, meanwhile, were largely filtered out.<\/p>\n<p>The model was then fine-tuned on a curated subset of sneakers in order to generate futuristic styles of sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>To my (myopic) eye, some of the designs are exquisite. They\u2019re certainly more elegant than the exorbitant monstrosities ostensibly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/jesus-wasnt-walkin-in-these-the-5-ugliest-yeezys-curre-1847199254\/slides\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">designed by Kanye West<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may disagree. If that\u2019s the case, you can use the site\u2019s sneaker editor to tweak the designs to your tastes.<\/p>\n<p>I had a go myself \u2014 and was pretty proud of the results:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1369542 size-full js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50.png\" alt=\"This Sneaker Does Not Exist\" width=\"764\" height=\"658\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50.png 764w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50-244x210.png 244w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50-157x135.png 157w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50-313x270.png 313w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/ai-designs-sneakers-on-this-website-does-not-exist#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2021%2F10%2F11%2Fai-designs-sneakers-on-this-website-does-not-exist%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Unleash your inner Jimmy Choo.\" data-title=\"Share Unleash your inner Jimmy Choo. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Unleash your inner Jimmy Choo. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Unleash your inner Jimmy Choo.<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1369542 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50.png\" alt=\"This Sneaker Does Not Exist\" width=\"764\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50.png 764w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50-244x210.png 244w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50-157x135.png 157w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-11-at-19.02.50-313x270.png 313w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>Now I just need a cobbler to bring my design to life and I\u2019ll be making hipsters weep with envy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Greetings Humanoids! Did you know we have a newsletter all about AI? You can subscribe to it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/share.hsforms.com\/1kUPK28s-Ro67GKE8E65Zwg47gef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">right here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/ai-designs-sneakers-on-this-website-does-not-exist\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who\u2019s bought the same model of sneakers three times in a row (Reebok Classics with the gum sole FYI), I\u2019ve fallen slightly behind the fashion curve. 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