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John Quincy Adams came out a bit off:

https://i.imgur.com/Bn0AgkJ.mp4

Straight-on photos seem to work a lot better, for obvious reasons. It's not very good at compensating proportions for turned heads.

A friend of mine, her mother from eastern europe in the 1970s:

https://i.imgur.com/iLc4iIt.mp4

That one came out decently.

The newborn photo is especially funny because newborns don't have the requisite neck strength to be able to look around like that.

Interesting that the AI understands sunglasses but still "blinks" them like eyes.

Is it really artificial intelligence and not facial recognition plus a series of image transforms

It's not just an image transform, because it has to create facial features that were occluded in the original. (And correctly occluded existing features when the head turns.)

In the video with the sunglasses, for instance, the computer had to invent that ear on our left. (With mixed results -- it looks a bit like Mike Tyson got at it.)

There is something so wrong with that! But your son is VERY cute and not creepy at all!