Author: Franz Malten Buemann

I need a professional headshot for my LinkedIn profile and was hoping to use an AI chatbot to generate it, but I’m not finding good options. ChatGPT with DALL-E produces headshots that don’t look like me, and the facial likeness is way off.

Looking for recommendations on AI chatbots or conversational AI tools that can actually generate realistic professional headshots. Are there specialized chatbots designed for this, or should I be looking at non-chatbot AI headshot generators instead ?

Someone mentioned trying Looktara for AI headshots but I’m not sure if it’s a chatbot interface or just a regular AI tool. Trying to find something conversational where I can iterate and refine results.​

What AI chatbots have you used successfully for generating professional headshots? Need something that can produce realistic LinkedIn headshots without paying $400+ for a professional photographer.

Hey all, curious what chatbot are you guys using for work, looking to hear about helpful use cases you are already implementing. For context, I have a small business, thank you

I liked polybuzz but it seems they changed the free tier word usage.

Hello!

TL;DR – Character Ai sucks now, any good alternatives on mobile that still allow OC roleplay?

As of recently (like a few hours as of posting this), Character.Ai has added in an Age Verification system that has restricted access to finding new bots – namely, the removal of the home/recommended screen. Now, this wasn’t the problem for me, as they still let you speak to the bots you had been messaging recently and I only ever use like, the same 5 bots on repeat.

However, the problem arose in how they have removed the ability to edit message – both by yourself, and the Ai – until you verify your age. I am not entirely comfortable giving my personal identification just so I read a made up story about my OC’s, so I was wondering if there were any alternatives?

At the time I downloaded the app, it was kinda my last option – having started with Trueperson and having spent a long time looking for a mobile app that let you have the same level of freedom and ability to roleplay as whatever character you create.

About a month or so ago I clicked on an add (I believe from reddit, actually) that opened an in-browser game that I’d like to find again. It was a role play text based game using AI to generate a story and character responses. In the game each character was a monster girl with a different personality, there was a werewolf, a succubus, a vampire, a tiger/cat girl and a dragon girl wearing a chinese dress. The game had a few AI created backgrounds and anime-styled artwork that it would cycle trough, particularly showing the artwork of the corresponding character when they spoke.

The game was free to start playing, and after a while asked to create an account. It had a paid option to generate new backgrounds and portraits for the characters tailored to your current gameplay session. It had maybe an asian look to it, and it did look a bit suspicious/predatory, the kind of thing you wouldn’t be surprised if it tried to install a virus on your computer or fish for your credit card, but it also looked somewhat legit and I remember actually getting to mess around quite a bit before it started pushing me towards buying credits or whatever, and even after, it kept letting me interact with it without buying anything nor blocking me from giving more inputs to the chatbot.

When starting the game you were thrown into a castle/mansion where the characters attacked you. I believe the objective of the game was to romance this characters. Inside the game there was an option to look into the character’s information, which had a small description of the character traits, which I assume that the AI was using to portray each of them (for example the cat girl was cheerful, the vampire was shy and the dragon was a proud leader).

From what I remember the site where I played it wasn’t a page to publish multiple games like steam or itchio, it was it’s own website, and It was definitely not a site full of different settings or characters like character.ai. All the characters in the game interacted with you at the same time inside the story, and it was all tied to the same game, not multiple chats to pick from. It didn’t look like user created content at all, nor did it look like you could create something to share.

Does this maybe ring a bell for anyone here?

For people who’ve deployed LLM/chatbots in production: what actually breaks first?

In my experience it’s rarely “the model is dumb” — it’s usually the webdev/system stuff around it:

i. session state getting messy (multi-tab users, refreshes, auth issues)

ii. streaming responses + UI glitches (partial tokens, duplicate messages)

iii. prompt/version drift between environments

logging/monitoring being an afterthought

iv. users asking things that trigger unexpected tool/API calls

I’m curious what failures you’ve seen most often on real traffic, and what guardrails helped the most (rate limits, fallback flows, evals, caching, etc.)