I don't want to go all SJW on you guys, amazing work, but can you try to make sure there's an inclusive array of starting faces please? Talking about things like skin tones, thanks!
It's an extremely hard research problem, because darker skin tones account for only about 0.3% of all anime art produced in the world.
We have employed an absolutely exhaustive array of art and data science tricks to give the model the ability to draw darker skin tones, though they are underrepresented. The results that you see today are the culmination of many months of careful tuning!
It's not definitely perfect, but from a data science perspective, this situation can't be rectified until the art world makes a shift.
Personally, I hope that more art representing dark skin tones will be created in the world!
It does not do well generating instances with features that are not well represented in the training dataset.
Compare this to human creativity. I suspect that fulfilling GPs request would be almost trivial for a human professional artist.
To be clear this is an amazing achievement, a creative use of the technology, and a positive contribution to the world. Pointing out limitations (i.e. areas with potential for future innovation) does not diminish it.
No one here is mandating shit, GP asked a friendly question in a most respectful manner, which prompted an informative answer from OP even. If such interaction generates such an allergic reaction in you, the problem is not with the grandparent comment.
I really think this integration predominantly means systemic internalization of racism, with side effect of affirmative actions. When ethnicity is expressed with intent, a distinction is made, and distinction is synonymous to discrimination. Or classification, for that matter.
Yes. What's your point?
> [...] and not meant at all to represent darker-skinned races.
No one ever claimed that. The question to my post was simply where to possibly get data from for "darker skin tones". Ganguro seems like an option because ... well, darker skin tones? Care to elaborate why you bring up "representation of darker skinned races" up in this context?
If we understand the ancestor comments as asking for more diverse representation, then no, because ganguro and many other anime archetypes and their clothing and accessories are ultimately Japonicentric, in the same way that you might consider angels and demons contrasted against each other post-antiquity Eurocentric.
My opinion on the matter is that it's not necessarily a worthy goal, but there is a more distinct difference to representing people of different races even in anime faces than just skin tone.
Ethnicity is sometimes incorporated, that is, some distinctions would be necessary if there was a documentary manga about a match in an Olympic Games played by teams from multiple parts of the world, and in that case an American players might be given smaller eyes or extra wrinkles in face, or African players might be colored darker than other characters, Chinese players could be drawn with slightly different shapes of chins, etc.
But the default is unspecified or an averaged, most simplified shapes and forms that the author uses in their own cognition.