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Or you can just take decent pictures? Is this really something we need?

I dunno, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth somehow. Like we’re replacing the things that should be uniquely human with something fake.

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Pay for 1k+ international plane rides or coordinate a small army of remote photographers all to have the same style somehow, paying all of them at the same time, perhaps contributing quite a lot to the climate change problem in the process just for some photos.

Or shell out 30 bucks pro-mensch to get a consistent headshot of all employees using whatever Tinder/Grindr/insta photos they have laying around.

I don't own a large company but I know which option I'd pick if I needed to do this.

I live with an actor. Every year or so she gets a set of professional headshots done which costs somewhere between £300 and £1000 depending on the photographer. While the quality of a professional set is undoubtedly better than these (currently) they're not so far off and I can see an acting student or jobbing actor going for a service like this if they're skint.

You still need high quality photos to generate these headshots. Anyone can just put those photos in midjourney or stable diffusion, and with ~10 minutes of prompting, generate their stylized headshots?

You absolutely do not need high quality headshots, that's not how stable diffusion works. I've used similar services before and your run of the mill duck face selfies work fine.

So in the future you'll submit your AI generated headshot that looks nothing like you, but no one actually cares what you look like because they'll replace your face in the final shoot anyway.

Great. You spend 10 minutes trying to take a decent headshot and get back to us with how fun it was.

I’m not saying the product will be the next Facebook, but boy does it solve a very niche and annoying problem.

It took me well over an hour to get a new directory photo of myself that I still hated. Lighting was bad, I looked tired, blemishes etc.

You were tired, you had blemished, light was terrible.. sorry, but that's probably how you look.. And.. THAT'S OKAY! We're humans, that's how humans look.

Sure, but the other guy will hire a professional to set up the details right and have a much better looking photo

And this is why americans all run around with artificially white teeth xD

Everyone is wrong unless they live life like you do, right?

Not like him, but like me!

you assume I think I live right? everyone is wrong, me included.

Aside from having to shoot myself, it isn’t all that bad.

Having it done with the whole team on premises is a lot of fun.

Why should this of all things be uniquely human?

What is the point of headshots if not to give a human connection?

I don’t want to connect with a fake on a dating site, and I don’t want it in a business relationship either.

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