 Faces generated by StyleGAN in 2019 drew comparisons with deepfakes.Beginning in 2017, GAN technology began to make its presence felt in the fine arts arena with the appearance of a newly developed implementation which was said to have crossed the threshold of being able to generate unique and appealing abstract paintings, and thus dubbed a "CAN", for "creative adversarial network".A GAN system was used to create the 2018 painting "Edmond de Belamy," which sold for US$432,500.