But my footwear could soon evolve from passe to trendsetting.
Anew websiteflaunts thousands of unique sneakers that would make me a style trailblazer.
There is one small problem, however: none of the shoes actually exist.
Each is merely the product of AIs imagination.
The systemis the brainchild ofStan van der Vossen, anAIengineer.
Van der Vossen first traineda StyleGAN2-ADAmodel trained on around 50,000 images of sneakers scraped from websites.
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Boring sneakers, meanwhile, were largely filtered out.
The model was then fine-tuned on a curated subset of sneakers to generate futuristic styles of sneakers.
To my (myopic) eye, some of the designs are exquisite.
Theyre certainly more elegant than the exorbitant monstrosities ostensiblydesigned by Kanye West.
Story byThomas Macaulay
Thomas is the managing editor of TNW.
He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he e(show all)Thomas is the managing editor of TNW.
He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
