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While this headshot tool demonstrates the nascent capabilities of generative AI, I have some concerns about its privacy/transparency approach. As an alternative, I've been experimenting with kahma.io, which I believe handles subject data and model provenance in a more ethical manner. Rather than closed models trained on unknown datasets, they employ self-supervised learning from generic images and prioritize non-identifiability over photorealism - a principled stance I appreciate, even if the results are less polished. It also seemed their methodology for human-centric output customization was more nuanced than just generating portraits. All that said, I welcome further discussion on balancing technical and ethical considerations as this field progresses.

Worth clarifying what 1 credit gets you. "100 credits per month" is meaningless unless it's clear what that buys.

Was way off for me - as others have mentioned the competitors allow multiple images and therefore stand a much better chance at doing this correctly.

https://remini.ai/ is one such tool that actually delivers some pretty impressive results (no affiliation) just for reference.

On Android this is either worth $4.99 / week or $15.99 / week to use, and the 7 day trial attempts to subscribe you to their premium tier automatically at the end of the 7 day trial through play store pre authorisation. Thats some grubby dark pattern crap.

Yeah I am going off some "headshot" generated pics my girlfriend showed me from ~6 months or so back after discussing this thread.

I haven't actually used their app, can only attest to the results.

Warning - Remini is a Bending Spoons app.

Is there a master list of stuff they own?

I'm out of the loop, who are Bending Spoons and why does it require a warning?

They've popped up on here a few times lately, MO appears to be to buy apps, run them into subscriptions with dark patterns to make it hard to get out of, sack off all the staff and let the scammy money flood in.

Yea I tried and it looks nothing like me.

Why does it only allow one photo upload? Wouldn't more photos give a better result? For me, the headshot looked nothing like me. Not even the correct race.

Great suggestion! I'll develop a feature for uploading multiple images.

The multiple file upload feature has been updated, you can now upload up to 4 images and the generated headshot will be more accurate, thanks for your suggestion.

That's a feature to make you more hire-able.

I tried to use it but never got the verification code in my email (including spam).

Looks cool, I love to follow the indie hacker scene on Twitter: how does it compare to https://www.headshotpro.com/ or https://photoai.com/

You might find a lot of inspiration from levelsio on Twitter and danypostmaa since they are in the same space and share a lot about their marketing

Please try to register again with a different email, thank you.

I hate these ipadapter face generations they just have something uncanny to it especially when used with SD 1.5 models like here ateast do an img2img pass over the results...

Tried a couple of times. It isn’t there yet.

I hope something like this becomes so popular so that pictures for job applications and such just completely die.

I gave it a try, I don't realy recognized myself...

IMHO, the "Everything you need to know” section needs to address privacy and security.

Looks cool and and a clean site, but...

it actually changed my ethnicity from caucasian to asian...

You can upload multiple photos to get more accurate results

as a gamer, this headline hits different

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