My Dead Father Is “writing” Me Notes Again

Benj Edwards, Ars Technica
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 4:00am

Enlarge / An AI-generated image featuring my late father's handwriting. (credit: Benj Edwards / Flux) Growing up, if I wanted to experiment with something technical, my dad made it happen. We shared dozens of tech adventures together, but those adventures were cut short when he died of cancer in 2013. Thanks to a new AI image generator, it turns out that my dad and I still have one more adventure to go. Recently, an anonymous AI hobbyist discovered that an image synthesis model called Flux can reproduce someone's handwriting very accurately if specially trained to do so.

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