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Generative Adversarial Networks

Goodfellow's GAN (2014) trains a generator and a discriminator against each other and produces the first photorealistic fake images.

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The two-player training idea gave sharp synthetic faces, images and later video. GANs were the leading image generators until diffusion models took over.

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