[gwern]

Incidentally, to update my comment there, I asked someone who had a font GAN and he mentioned he'd already found uppercase/lowercase latent directions which can automatically "more-uppercase" letters. It's not that this is a 'terrible problem' - it's borderline trivial. (I've seen highschoolers do much more impressive GAN things.) He just didn't do it even remotely right, is all.

[Sebb767]

> He just didn't do it even remotely right, is all.

To be fair, this was for April's fools, he probably did not intend to get something actually usable (as far as upperercase letters can be usable) .

[gwern]

He put in way more work than would've been necessary to get StyleGAN or CLIP to do a vastly better job, is my point, because he used totally the wrong tools and approach. (And he could put in vastly more work, and it still wouldn't work that way either; the level of effort one would or would not spend on a SIGBOVIK paper is just irrelevant when his approach is doomed from the beginning.)

[Recursing]

Do you happen to have a link with some examples? After seeing tom7 video I'm now terribly curious on what a 'more uppercase' font would look like

[gwern]

He didn't provide any samples, sorry.