Giant fake model confirmed using random weights — but random-weight nets actually generate images
pbaylies · x · 2026-11-02
A viral 'giant model' was confirmed fake — allegedly built with random weights. pbaylies quips that random-weight networks actually work: a 2016 arXiv paper (1606.04801) showed untrained CNNs can produce high-quality feature inversion, texture synthesis, and style transfer results, competitive with trained networks on some tasks.
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