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Show HN: Twogether AI – Multi-Person Photo Generation API

39 pointsby yardenstover 1 year ago
Hey everyone, at Magicflow (YC W23) we&#x27;re helping our customers run AI image generation in production, enabling them to produce high-quality photos at scale.<p>We are launching a scalable API today that makes it possible to create multi-person portrait photos: which means the ability to create real-looking photos of any two persons interacting with each other in some way only by providing a prompt and the person&#x27;s pose. Generating this kind of photo requires a deep understanding of the AI ecosystem, a knowledge gap many companies face. In order to make the photos look real with high consistency and for a low cost, chaining of many models is required, and an excellent understanding of how to tweak with the various params of each one.<p>We also handle the infrastructure required to generate the photos, which can be a challenge when dealt with alone, especially for companies with a small backend team (we can scale to thousands of requests per day and generate 100 photos in about 3 minutes). Our customers today use this technology for the following use cases: creating new photo albums from old-scanned albums, providing personalized content for user acquisition campaigns, enabling new kinds of experiences in physical venues, and creating humorous photos with celebrities.<p>There is a significant tradeoff between creating a robust abstraction layer on top of Stable Diffusion capabilities and providing customers with more control over various options. The API currently allows you to manipulate the following parameters: the pose of the couple (hugging, taking a selfie, etc.), their facial expressions, the style of the photo (realistic, cartoon, painting, etc.), as well as the location, theme, and outfits (e.g., ski vacation, on the beach)<p>We created a free demo app for you to view examples and try live: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twogether.ai?source=hn" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twogether.ai?source=hn</a> (no user or payment needed). For full API access, contact me at yardenst@magicflow.ai. We can typically set you up within a day, but an onboarding session is required to ensure responsible API usage.

15 comments

AdamH12113over 1 year ago
It&#x27;s neat technology, but...<p>I&#x27;m trying to think of uses for this that aren&#x27;t creepy (&quot;manipulate... the pose of the couple... their facial expressions...&quot;), dishonest (&quot;photos... with celebrities...&quot;), or dystopian (&quot;creating new photo albums from old scanned albums... providing personalized content for user acquisition campaigns&quot;) and failing. If someone comes along and makes a fake photo of themself with a celebrity, that&#x27;s great, but it&#x27;s also a one-off novelty. What kind of non-sleazy recurring use is going to prompt people to pay for this?
cjover 1 year ago
&gt; Our customers today use this technology for the following use cases: creating new photo albums from old-scanned albums, providing personalized content for user acquisition campaigns, enabling new kinds of experiences in physical venues, and creating humorous photos with celebrities.<p>I&#x27;m genuinely curious what you see the use case being 5-10 years from now. Or in the short term, which use case do you think is most compelling from a business perspective? Or is this just an entry point to much different uses of AI+Images in the future?<p>Do you see this as a B2B play or a B2C play?<p>Lots of AI startups doing various things with AI models, but I always have trouble seeing the business model vision. (Or maybe that doesn&#x27;t matter, yet)
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swatcoderover 1 year ago
As a funded corporation pursuing sales and not just a casual hobbyist doing a tech demo, I have to ask:<p>How did you get a license to use the image of these celebrities, let alone in commercialized deepfakes? Because that&#x27;s kind of a hot topic right now and you&#x27;re putting a giant target on your investors&#x27; assets if you didn&#x27;t bother.
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jasonpeacockover 1 year ago
&gt; and creating humorous photos with celebrities.<p>how are you handling licensing (use of celebrity or any other person&#x27;s image) and copyright (original image is not from user, so is likely copyrighted by someone else)?
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mtlmtlmtlmtlover 1 year ago
Sounds like an ideal tool for misinformation and smear jobs.<p>&quot;Look, here&#x27;s person X with Jeffrey Epstein&quot;, etc.
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nittanymountover 1 year ago
will you enhance this site to allow uploading 2 persons photos to make a picture together ? thanks
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taitemsover 1 year ago
This is simply region prompting isn&#x27;t it? Person A in left 50%, Person B in right 50%?
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attqqqover 1 year ago
Reskin of gradio + controlnet and some prebaked Lora<p>IDK what you’re planning on charging for this, but it’s nothing that can’t be done for free on any device in a notebook already
warthogover 1 year ago
why not make this a consumer app like can of soup? Bet it would blow up and make a mess out of BeReal feed
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JohnFenover 1 year ago
Sigh. This is just the sort of thing that people are afraid that AI will be used for. The fear is not entirely unjustified.
ConnorMooneyhanover 1 year ago
Here comes Rule 34...
comment_ranover 1 year ago
Dude, this is crazy.
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seemazeover 1 year ago
Any website that hijacks my browsers back button is a hard pass.
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xydacover 1 year ago
Soon Samsung would be like able to show moon and Saturn twogether in their photos
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wferrellover 1 year ago
This is so fun. I&#x27;d love to integrate this into a holiday card app :)