What is a Generative Adversarial Network, GANs

Machine learning models

Regia Marinho
4 min readMay 20, 2023

Generated Adversarial Networks aren’t manipulating images of real people — they’re creating nonexistent people. — Matthieu Bourel.

AI ART. 2023

Unlike deep fakes, which alter real images of people, GANs generate images of people who don’t actually exist.

The purpose of GANs is not to impersonate specific individuals or commit identity theft, but rather to capture the basic features of human appearance and gradually improve their accuracy in doing so.

A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) system that is used for generating new data that is similar to the data it was trained on.

The GAN consists of two main components: a generator network and a discriminator network.

The generator network creates new data samples, while the discriminator network evaluates the authenticity of the generated samples by comparing them to the real data.

During the training process, the generator network learns to create samples that are increasingly more realistic, while the discriminator network becomes more effective at distinguishing real data from the generated samples.

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