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[flagged] Create a cute avatar from your photo. Powered by DALL-E 3 (headshotpro.com)
8 points by tikkun on Nov 30, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments


Mine had, like, zero resemblance to my photo. It looks like a completely different person. Flagging this as a scam and I regret having sent a photo.


OpenAI's products and DALL-E 3 can't really transform existing images. GPT-V lets it see images, and DALL-E 3 can make images. But they aren't directly connected.

> We'll analyse your photo, describe it in words, and generate a new image from scratch.

I've tried the same technique to get around "copyright policy" refusals, but never get anything close to what I want.


Are there any models properly trained for avatar creation/charicature? The image-to-text-to-image approach is seriously lacking.


Those that are complaining about the lack of resemblance, may have missed the text explaining how this works: "We'll analyse your photo, describe it in words, and generate a new image from scratch."

Mine was also way off, but if I think about how an AI would describe the photo and then regenerate it, then it's probably pretty close to that.


Mine kinda sucked. First, it made an avatar with two almost identical heads in it. I have a high forehead, the two people in the avatar had full, thick hair. I have brown eyes, the avatar twins have large, deep blue eyes. The only thing in common with my image was that the avatar people have a salt and pepper beard, like I do.


Mine sucked completely. It is not me at all. I wish I could post images easily to show how far the avatar is from the original.


They allude to it but do not fully explain. I am assuming they are also using the vision model to describe the input photo. I would not have initially thought that you given the text description of an image you could recreate it well enough for fun avatars...it makes sense but I did not initially think about it.


Neat idea, but it return an avatar of someone that doesn't look even remotely like me.


Your pricing is absolutely ridiculous. I ran a full image generation site (like Leonardo), so I know what it costs to run models/generate images. I'm shocked people are willing to pay you that much money. Your margins must be like 99%


"AI" is just the latest grift in a long, long line.


I have tried it and I have expected that it would look similar to the selfie, but the output does not look like me. It looks more like a random stock photo. Perhaps that was the intention?


All these models can do is regurgitate an approximation of a stored image.


My team decided to use it to represent our team. Now the "avatars" means nothing, other teams check our picture and cannot say who is who..


i got glasses and it looks nothing like me. everything is inaccurate.


generated something that doesn't look like me at all, didn't "see" my glasses and gave me a full beard I don't have.


"Something went wrong", two times.


Not my product, but looks cool.


expensive and inaccurate


I have to try three times because it says something went wrong. Then it generates an image that looks nothing like the one I uploaded. And then the next time I try it says I made too many requests. So, it would be cool if it worked I guess.




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