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Re: Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

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Looks oddly similar to https://headshotai.studio/ , some of their FAQ answers are exactly the same too. Not sure if they are owned by the same person, or if one of them copied the other.

72 hour turn around?!?!?! Seems an awfully long time, these days most studios will have the photos turns around within 30 minutes (at least where I live) I'm surprised to see 3 day turn around time.

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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.

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.

Re: Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

#33

Although impressive, many of the photos shown can't be passed off as authentic headshots. Many of the photos linked in the landing page itself have issues. Example [1]. But even if I ignore them most of them, there is something off. Maybe I am biased because I know it's AI-generated, but I also feel they look too polished for the real world. The facial skin isn't generally this perfect. And the bokeh looks like it ha…

The hands are a dead giveaway that it is AI as opposed to being simply photoshopped.

Re: Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

#34

Looks oddly similar to https://headshotai.studio/ , some of their FAQ answers are exactly the same too. Not sure if they are owned by the same person, or if one of them copied the other.

Maybe they used a LLM to generate their faq page? Has ChatGPT been known to reiterate content word for word ala github copilot?

Re: Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

#35

Looks oddly similar to https://headshotai.studio/ , some of their FAQ answers are exactly the same too. Not sure if they are owned by the same person, or if one of them copied the other.

Yeah they copied my other product, https://www.profilepicture.ai.

Re: Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

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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.

Why should this of all things be uniquely human?

Re: Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention it might be much cheaper. Here in the North of England, I paid half that for a simple headshot on white background from a local photographer. I guess in London it would cost more, but then in London half your friends, and most waiters, are photographers...

You can get a professional headshot for $20? Does it require you to go somewhere? Because if so I'd argue that the cost is the photographer payment plus your time. I think there are very few people looking for a professional headshot who would value their time at less than $20 hour

Now account for a team of 20 people to get them on time, in one place, dressed properly.

Re: Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

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I follow you and Pieter Levels on twitter. Some wild things you guys create -- the control net things are unreal. I am continually impressed and inspired. If you're looking for critiques or improvements stating "Indistinguishable from real photos" seems a stretch as good as they are. Even if I were to use ai photos, I'd never try to pass them off as real. Seems dishonest. I'd push more towards a new thing, not sell a…

> I'd never try to pass them off as real. Seems dishonest With photo-shopping, makeup, plastic surgery... AI generated photos are ethical.

> With photo-shopping, makeup, plastic surgery... AI generated photos are ethical.

Correction: are just as ethical.

Re: Show HN: Professional headshots for remote team with AI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.
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