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AI-Generated Faces: Free Resource of 100K Faces Without Copyright

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3 min readSep 18, 2019

One of the common needs for design projects and presentations are photos of people. You want them diverse, free and legal, don’t you? What’s more, you don’t want to spend your precious time looking for what you need scattered all around the Web. Generated Photos is the resource to help: it shares a huge pack of 100,000 incredibly realistic faces created by artificial intelligence and non-existing in the world of real people.

Join the release party on Product Hunt or explore the details about it below.

What’s Generated Photos?

Generated Photos is the free resource of 100k faces for you to use however you wish. But these aren’t just common faces. They were produced completely by artificial intelligence — none of these people are real!

In fact, this is the milestone which the creative team decided to share on the way to the ultimate goal: creating a simple API that can produce infinite diversity. A part of the process is training and refining the generative models. The iterations move fast although not everything is perfect yet. So you will also have some fun with the pack of AI-generated photos. When you see a face that is a bit ‘off’, just give it some slack.

In-House Training Data

We all know that the future can be unnerving at times. That is why the team went above and beyond to assure personal safety:

  • All the training data was shot in-house and is fully model released.
  • No images were pulled from stock media or scraped from the internet.

Such an approach requires thousands of hours of labor, but in the end it will certainly be worth it!

Features

These faces feature:

  • Consistent lighting
  • Consistent sizing
  • Range of angles, positions
  • Range of facial expressions
  • Wide variety of ethnicities
  • All ages
  • All face shapes

No Copyright

Have your next mockup, presentation or website looking great with these fresh faces. No copyrights, royalties, or other legal issues to worry about!

Everything is free to use as long as you include link attribution back to generated.photos, so that more people can find us.

Variants of Usage

Free images in the pack are handy for:

  • user interface design for web and mobile applications
  • landing pages
  • emails and newsletters
  • presentations
  • educational projects, handouts, and worksheets
  • user avatars

So, the resource lets creators fill their creative projects with beautiful photos of people that will never take their time and money in real life.

Next Stage: What to Expect Soon

The project is in progress: now the team works on one simple API that will become an even closer step to the infinite diversity of photos. It will allow to organize and search all the base of free images according to the meta properties and physical properties.

Try AI-Generated Faces and have fun! Or join the discussion on Product Hunt.

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