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AI Headshots Sorta Work

I gave AI headshots a try and it’s not bad. Some are quite good, but I’d call it a 7/10 over all. I made and attached a grid of the results, but I mixed in one real picture. Any guesses? The hardest part was that it required 10-20 selfies with different backgrounds and outfits, but since I don’t take a lot of selfies I had to run around my house finding backgrounds and changing clothes for 30 minutes to generate enough training data!

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Virtual Influencers - From Cartoons to Deep Fakes

Studio71 Germany has recently launched not one but two virtual influencers and they’ve done a great job with the implementation and marketing around this project (disclosure: I am the global CTO of Studio71). I’ve been thinking about it a lot and on the one hand this idea of a “fake” or “virtual” influencers comes and goes over the years and every time it comes back we all like to pretend that it’s a crazy idea.

Context Powers Brand Safety at Studio71

Have you heard about the brand safety concerns on YouTube? Maybe you’ve heard it described as the “Adpocalypse”? Even if you haven’t caught wind of the madness over the last 12 months, surely you understand that anything mixed with “apocalypse” isn’t a good thing. As is common in “whatever-pocalypse” situations there was a fair bit of freak out, but Studio71 went to work!