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Hello, There are many services that return fake avatar images, but
it can be hard to get consistent names and faces. In this service
ChatGPT was used to generate a list of users with various
characteristics and Dall-E to generate their avatars, based on
those. You can get a random avatar image like so:
https://avatars.tzador.com/face Or request a specific size, like
so: https://avatars.tzador.com/face?size=250 You can ask for
specific gender, like so:
https://avatars.tzador.com/face?gender=female Also you can pin
point with id param to get back always the same image:
https://avatars.tzador.com/face?gender=female&id=0987654321 If you
need a list of fake users with their names, usernames and avatars,
you can get it in JSON here. https://avatars.tzador.com/faces Hope
it helps someone, runs on CloudFlare, so should be fast, built
using SvelteKit.
Author : timz
Score : 66 points
Date : 2024-02-17 10:20 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (avatars.tzador.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (avatars.tzador.com)
| snet0 wrote:
| Minor spelling issue:
|
| > You can mix and match the above paramers as needed.
|
| Should be "parameters", of course.
|
| I'm literally building a tiny webapp for myself and a few others,
| this'll come in handy!
|
| Just out of interest, would you consider describing the prompt(s)
| you used for this? I've barely dabbled in ChatGPT for anything
| like this. Did you use one of those wrapper-like services to
| ensure the data-out was of the appropriate format?
| timz wrote:
| Sure, here is gist for generating the data and the images:
| https://gist.github.com/tzador/ec9c14dd20f0ba1be243727b4f9ae...
| Some manual filtering was required of the generated images,
| since some where looking like mutants.
| snet0 wrote:
| Thanks, that's really helpful!
| ShamelessC wrote:
| Incredibly useful thanks!
| timz wrote:
| Thanks for the spelling tip.
| BaudouinVH wrote:
| what is the syntax to mix and match. Say I want hispanic, male
| and 26-35 age range ?
| almostnormal wrote:
| It seems to accept multiple GET parameters, e.g.,
|
| https://avatars.tzador.com/face?age=26-35ðnicity=hispanic.
| ..
| Gare wrote:
| I cannot quite put it into words, but something looks eerily
| uncanny about them.
| replwoacause wrote:
| I think it is the symmetry of the faces for one
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| They all have long necks, are looking straight on, are
| perfectly vertical....
| schleck8 wrote:
| The human brain is much better at picking up inconsistencies
| for faces because that's where you look so often. It's the most
| difficulg aspect to the uncanney valley.
| tylerrobinson wrote:
| It would be refreshing to see a version of this where the avatars
| actually look like plausible users and not models/dolls/uncanny
| robots. Backgrounds, less attractive faces, and different poses
| would help. Most of the time avatars come from candid snapshots.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| Missed this comment. Yes, there was a service where you can
| either use the API or link to a random avatar of real people. I
| have forgotten the name but I can look around and it should be
| there.
|
| I would download/test an App and I would be looking at my
| Avatar/Picture with someone else's name.
| mpetrovich wrote:
| Perhaps something powered by thispersondoesnotexist.com would
| better for that. That site returns completely AI-generated
| faces that seem much more realistic and candid.
| timz wrote:
| thispersondoesnotexist.com is great, but doesn't provide
| metadata, and one of the primary goals was to be able to have
| consistent names with images, so boys don't get girls names.
| Also multiple sizes and fixed ids where needed.
| mpetrovich wrote:
| Good point. What if we combined the best of both: more
| realistic images from tpdne.com and API-accessible metadata
| from your site?
|
| Seems like a matter of crawling the former to get all the
| images and then tagging them and serving them via your API.
|
| Anyway, I think your approach is great and only wanted to
| propose a possible approach to the original feedback above
| :)
| timz wrote:
| Not sure tpdne would allow to use their images
| m3kw9 wrote:
| The lighting, esp color temperature, backgrounds, angles and
| zoom amount all very uniform and Center, it looks like a game
| avatar. If you look at fb profiles you will know
| sailorganymede wrote:
| Honestly, when it comes Avatars for my development needs, I just
| use Emojis. It's just really easy to set up compared to getting
| anything more complicated.
| timz wrote:
| I love emojis too. Check out my other project,
| https://emojifavicon.dev/, to use emojis as favicons
| cal85 wrote:
| Did you know you can also use a data-URI as a favicon? And if
| you use a <text> element inside that SVG, you can set any
| text as a favicon - including an emoji.
|
| For example, this sets the favicon to a little picture of the
| text "!!!": <link rel="icon"
| href='data:image/svg+xml,<svg
| xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 100
| 100"><text y=".9em" font-size="90">!!!</text></svg>'
| />
|
| You can also replace the "!!!" in the above snippet with any
| emoji, and it works. (I couldn't do an emoji here because HN
| filters them out.)
|
| You could maybe add this as an option for copying code from
| your site, and the result will work without any request to
| any server (with the caveat that the emoji design will vary
| depending on OS).
| timz wrote:
| That is a cool trick, i should add an option to copy that
| code as well.
| yreg wrote:
| What is the license of the GitHub emoji assets?
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| Once upon a time there was a service for avatars and people used
| to contribute their real avatars (pictures of faces). I
| contributed mine and it used to pop up at random apps, websites,
| and such.
| ivanbozic wrote:
| Wasn't that UIFaces? They're now also some sort of AI-generated
| faces product, but I remember I also submitted mine there and
| it was great seeing it pop up here and there.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| www.uifaces.co pops up at the top of the search but this is
| not. WebArchive says it started around 2018 and the domain
| was registered in 2017.
|
| I remember the services (faces, or avatar, something) but it
| was since the early 2010s.
| dpkirchner wrote:
| I think you're talking about Gravatar: https://gravatar.com/
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| Nope. Gravatar by WordPress/Automattic associates your email
| ID with your avatar.
|
| The one I meant is a service, where you can use something
| similar to the service in this post thread but with real
| avatars contributed by people on the Internet.
| wouldbecouldbe wrote:
| Would default to a bit warmer styles. Looks very much like a
| modern art portrait style where no one is allowed to smile
| timz wrote:
| This can be extended to infinity, with many styles, shapes and
| forms. What about Disney looking like avatars
| https://i.ibb.co/zbk8DnN/3c31a768-d244-47d9-b5ba-0f902e097f8...
| wouldbecouldbe wrote:
| Still very stylistic and brownish colours; but look at main
| sentiment here the landing page doesn't feel like a warm set
| of humans inviting you
| timz wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback, will tweak the prompts.
| hasbot wrote:
| The age parameter should accept more granularity for 50+. There
| is a huge difference between 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, and 80+.
| romanhn wrote:
| This is neat, but it bugs me that it generates email addresses
| with real providers (Gmail, Outlook, etc). This can lead to
| accidental emails to real people during testing. I would
| recommend using @example.com for all emails.
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| Not to take away from the point but it's also a good practice
| to catch outbound emails in dev/test and send them to the same
| (developer-controlled) inbox. Definitely also use fake test
| data, though; avoidance of this sort of mistake is best handled
| with a bit of redundancy.
| timz wrote:
| Good point, thanks
| pimlottc wrote:
| When are real user-generated avatars ever consistent? What kind
| of artificial visual goal are you chasing with this? Or is it
| just to make your pitch deck look pretty?
|
| This feels like another small step toward making the tech world a
| more visually bland and uniform space [0].
|
| 0: https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-
| aesthetic-...
| mberning wrote:
| Where are all the fat and ugly people.
| WesolyKubeczek wrote:
| You should probably go outside to meet them ;-)
|
| But yeah otherwise
|
| When developing things you also want badly take photos, photos
| with poor lighting, photos with ugly colors.
|
| No one carefully crafts their contact lists as on those apple
| presentations...
| mberning wrote:
| I was thinking of testing healthcare software. Very few 50+
| GQ models in the system.
| xdennis wrote:
| If you use this and refresh they all look the same.
| https://avatars.tzador.com/face?gender=maleðnicity=white&...
| WesolyKubeczek wrote:
| The images are all overly handsome faces. Can it be dialed to
| more ugly and less symmetric mugs, like those you are actually
| likely to see in real life?
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