Artificial portraits
Interesting. Who owns the copyright to the images?
Would be more interesting with the ability to ‘tailor’ the images - gender, race, age, hairstyle, worn accessories, etc, to reduce some of the randomness if you’re looking for an image to match a particular character.
eg. If I’m looking for an image for my character, Jessica Mbele, half the images I generate will be the wrong gender, 90% of them will be the wrong race, and if I just happen to get something close after a few hundred clicks, what’s the betting she’ll be sporting a pair of horn-rimmed specs?
Fascinating what technology can do, these days, but for character generation, let’s see what rival sites come up with over the next year or three.
Of course, if jase could incorporate a version of this into Rpol, tailored to our needs with a script to generate copyright-free images by the thousand, it would make an interesting adjunct to the current portrait gallery.
All he needs is the budget. :)