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Artificial face generator to protect your identity

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I tried it out with a picture of Brad Pitt. The results are NOT close, unless you think "Yes that's a white male" is close. The hair color was wrong, but that could have been due to using a picture of Pitt where his hair is dyed blond but his black roots or showing, or just due to shadow.

I guess they have many hundreds or thousands of images pre-generated, and when you upload a photo, they find the closest ones.

Hi, founder here.

You're right about the pre-generated images! 2.6M to be precise, all of them are here: https://generated.photos/faces

It definitely has some fitting issues; Brad Pitt is a good example as he dyes his hair. I've googled his hair situation so you don't have to. He most probably has gray hair, dyed dark, then highlighted.

That's a challenge huh! As a result, you can feel some of these guys manipulated hair color: https://i.imgur.com/bC6AxXO.jpg

Anyway, I had better luck with Angelina Jolie. Hairwise, her hair looks also toned, but our dataset has way more colored women: https://i.imgur.com/WmTzRAZ.jpg

Ya the bottom left is pretty good! I've actually bought from the site before so please don't think I was knocking it too hard. It's very useful when you need a unique image of a face.

Thank you for buying and thank you for your encouragement!

My personal fault was positioning. We can’t make everyone looking similar. As you said, we have a bunch of files on a disk, heavy indexed ones. We spend a year working on diversity, including running as photo studio, but it has limits yet.

So, we needed to invent a use for it. Anonymizing seemed like the opposite of resemblance, yet people wait for the latter. More resemblance (and prettier the face) more they like it.

I wonder if the current tech is marketable without false expectations.

I think its pretty cool. Especially for marketing pages with faces. I wish there would be a slider: more like me ------ less like me

I like the idea! That would be a cool next step after this mvp!

We could either pre-generate (see the first comment - it’s an accurate guess), or generate just in time.

The first is way easier - same architecture, more storage (we are moving from instance’s storage to S3 so it will be an easy step).

On-demand generation would be much more expensive as you have to have a GPU server ready, and queue requests. We have it with https://icons8.com/upscaler ; it’s a bit of work and expense.

Additionally, you have to make it a paid service. Any ideas who could pay for that? Our usual customers are https://generated.photos/use-cases

cool stuff The bot network will sparkle with new colors

Haha I like how you put it!

On the boring side, it’s probably not worth it. Generated photography is detectable. A trained eye could spot it; big social media have models trained to a lot it.

Scraping a real life dataset makes more sense to me. Moreover, there are tons of ready ones.

Instead, here are are some of the other uses invented by our customers https://generated.photos/use-cases

cool stuff The Bot network will have new faces))))

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