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by outsidetheparty 1457 days ago
Took me a moment to notice the "shuffle" button; the utility of the site became a lot clearer after that!

Are those real peoples' photos? I know this is intended for mockups and placeholders, but the absence of any licensing info would still give me a little pause before trying this for anything but a personal project. (I recognize the 'fake logos' from logoipsum.com, they don't require attribution but you miiiiight be on the wrong side of the line of their "as long as you don't use the logo to make similar website as Logoipsum then it's all good" thing.)

I hate to be the copyright party pooper, but this is a nifty idea; a quick note at the bottom confirming sourcing and that everything's openly usable would probably encourage more people to make use of it!
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jw1224 1457 days ago
> Are those real peoples' photos?

Certainly not the portrait photos — they’re unmistakably sourced from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (once you’ve seen enough of them, they’re impossible to miss…)

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alexray 1457 days ago
Right! We wanted to make sure not to use real people's photos. It is a bit eery that all of their eyes stay in the same place as you hit shuffle...
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arjvik 1456 days ago
Where'd you get the abstract images from?
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hansoolo 1457 days ago
What has been seen, cannot be unseen...
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kaoD 1456 days ago
What is amazing to me is that I cannot exactly tell why but I immediate recognized the AI source too, even after seeing only the first photo!

Our brains are truly amazing pattern-matching machines...

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probabletrain 1456 days ago
The eyes are in the same location for all pictures, which I think is a subtle but important clue to our subconscious
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mtmail 1457 days ago
I had the same reaction and won't want to risk using photos that a larger company might try to claim copyright over later.https://www.uifiller.com/images/portraits/anon-6.jpg is https://unsplash.com/photos/lknvOcns4zM which lists a "Free to use under the Unsplash License" (https://unsplash.com/license) but it's not obvious.
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alexray 1457 days ago
That's a good point -- our goal is for everything on the site to be able to be used without any sort of attribution. I think it's that way now, but will go and double check everything we're using today
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