The way it works is you upload 10 photographs of yourself to the website — in this case, I was using PhotoPacks.AI — and wait for roughly an hour before receiving your AI images.
PhotoPacks urges you to pick good quality, high-resolution photos with good lighting that include a variety of angles, clothing, and expressions. The better the training data, the better the output from the AI model. The foundation model for PhotoPacks is Stable Diffusion’s SDXL.
‘It’s You, But It’s Not You’
It’s quite weird seeing AI images of yourself. So I posted them to my Instagram to see what people thought.
The people who don’t know me in real life seem to think they are really impressive. One cameraman declares that’s “headshot photography dead right there” while another describes the images as “so real.”
However, the people who do know me in the real world say that while the technology is impressive, it is still too “uncanny valley.”
“It’s really unsettling to see little glimpses of your actual face surrounded by things that don’t look right,” says my colleague Jeremy Gray.
Written by Matt Growcoot for Peta Pixel.
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