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

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Post by twayt »

darkwater wrote: post #38
t344344 wrote: post #22

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> 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.

Correction: just as unethical

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

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Post by dusted »

Gigachad wrote: post #42
dusted wrote: post #40

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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

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

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Post by Yoric »

hosteur wrote: post #24
dewey wrote: post #11

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Most companies strongly discourage you from submitting headshots already. At this point, it's considered unprofessional to submit a picture on an application.

> At this point, it's considered unprofessional to submit a picture on an application. Really? This does not match my experience (Europe) Quite the contrary actually.

My experience (also Europe) tends to agree with GP.

:shrug:

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

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Post by roel_v »

rahul_nyc wrote: post #7

I would prefer supporting a local photographer.

I tried that last time, and got upsold a bunch of 'variations', and looking back on everything I bought the next day, none of them looked all that great. The style was too much... well let's say 'country' (which is an accurate reflection of where I am, but I think a professional photographer should be able to adjust to a client's wishes, and I told her specifically what look I did not want - my market is not local), and the studio didn't even have a few colors of shirts I could try on, nor could she advise on the most basic of styling. I mean, they don't even need whole shirts, just get a few collar/shoulder panels for people to throw on ffs.

I'm soured on the whole 'support local' thing (not only because of this episode). Too many chumps.

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

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Post by pcthrowaway »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #45
ozim wrote: post #37

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

A few years ago, we had just that a start-up I was working for. We were told that X day would be picture day, so come dressed in a shirt. A photographer showed up at our office with a bunch of lights in tow. He didn't stay that long. The pictures looked pretty great.

Yeah, I think this service is probably a better value for remote teams, and individuals than it would be for a fully in-office team

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

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Post by RugnirViking »

hosteur wrote: post #24
dewey wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most companies strongly discourage you from submitting headshots already. At this point, it's considered unprofessional to submit a picture on an application.

> At this point, it's considered unprofessional to submit a picture on an application. Really? This does not match my experience (Europe) Quite the contrary actually.

ive had a very mixed, in fact I would go so far as to say polarized, experience with it across varius european countries.

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

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Post by RugnirViking »

ICodeSometimes wrote: post #50

2 hour turnaround time implies ya'll are doing it manually behind the scenes?

for 120 pictures per person plus upscaling to 4k thats quite a lot of compute time. If they're running it locally its understandable it might take that long

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

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Post by tveita »

r_hoods_ghost wrote: post #47
Aeolun wrote: post #23

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.

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.

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.

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

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Post by echelon »

dannypostma wrote: post #35
chaychoong wrote: post #18

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 .

There's no moat around profile pictures, not even good execution.

Gotta keep building, Danny. Go! Go! Go!

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