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The first image on the marketing page is an AI-generated picture of a person staring back. At best it's unsettling, and at worst it makes me wonder how authentic of a user experience the app can offer. Above-the-fold, first landing page content is valuable real estate. Ethically/copyright-ambiguous, inauthentic marketing is a strange thing to value imo.

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> At best it's unsettling

To say the least... This one looks like something out of a horror movie.

We've had models that can generate realistic looking people and coherent text for a while now, if they're going to insist on using an AI generated image (for some reason) at least make it a good one. Or better yet just mock up a product image that shows off what you're actually selling.

I hate to be too critical, but I think obvious AI-generated images gives a lot of people the 'ick'. It was cool and avant-garde for a while, but now it unfortuantely gives off a bad impression.

This is hyper-subjective; I myself am zero percent bothered by them.

Yeah, I would get a shutterstock image, not perfect but much better than AI images.

Thanks for the feedback! You're not the only one who’s mentioned the AI image—it seems to be a bit polarizing. I’ll definitely be removing it. As for the marketing copy, I’m no expert in copywriting and have done my best for now. I might bring in a professional later to polish things up. I really appreciate your input!

There should be a transition period from flat humans to ai generated intense humans. I don't know, maybe real humans?

strongly agree

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