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by shubhamjain 1183 days ago
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 has been artificially added.

I won't say I can point out 100% of the time when a photo has been AI generated. But if I saw a series of them generated with the same software, I don't think it will be too hard.

[1]: https://bit.ly/4033epk

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They all have skin that’s too perfect. The images are high resolution and hyper detail but then the skin looks like it was airbrushed on
I would say >95% of digital portrait photographers retouch and soften their subjects facial features. If they don't do that customers would not be very pleased with the results. So it is a pretty common, accepted and even encouraged practice in portrait photography, particularly in product, wedding and corporate shots.
The hands are a dead giveaway that it is AI as opposed to being simply photoshopped.
I'm looking forward to a future in which people have plastic surgery to get "AI hands".
Damn, just as I got those nice jpeg artifacts surgery ...
That hair also seems to want to be part of the jacket.
hands and fingers are frequently off in the landing page shots, although the example you've highlighted is particularly bad. I found a couple where the fingers are correctly formed but the proportions are wrong, e.g. [0]

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmSSw-maAAAaZ0g.jpg