Datephotos.AIReviews of datephotos.ai

Pretty happy overall. Some shots looked a little too polished, but my face looked right in the ones I kept. I used six photos in the end.

I was close to paying for a photographer, but tried this first. Glad I did. A few photos were misses, but the good ones were more than enough for Hinge and Bumble.

Honestly better than I expected. I thought I might get one usable photo, but I ended up saving a handful. The coffee shop and outdoor ones looked the most like me.

From the sample photos I'd seen, I was optimistic about this service, but it turned out to be a disappointment at every step. Off the bat, the photo upload process was buggy to the point that it took almost half an hour to upload 15 pictures. Trying to batch upload pictures would cause delays of minutes, so I had to do them one by one. For almost every picture, I got an indecipherable error message at least once while trying to upload (something about JSON not being formatted correctly). Sometimes two or three times. Furthermore, sometimes a picture upload would give an error message, I'd try to upload it again, and then see that despite the error message, the previous upload had succeeded, and have to remove the duplicate. Once I finally got them uploaded and went to the image generation step, the site said that only 3 of the 15 pictures were acceptable for training. I tried to figure out why, and discovered that the automated photo review process had broken down on 12 (!) of the pictures, causing the site to say they weren't approved. I then had to delete the 12 pictures and manually re-upload them AGAIN from this page, at which point the site finally ran the approval process for each. All 12 of the pictures which the site originally said weren't suitable passed review with flying colors. Finally, I generated the pictures; and to say that the results were a disappointment would be an understatement. Almost every picture was *very obviously* AI-generated, to the point of being unusable in a profile. (The carefully curated example photos made it look like they'd be photorealistic.) Even though I'm white, almost a third of the pictures depicted me as Asian. Only about a quarter of the total 80 were recognizably images of me. At the end of the day there were maybe 2 pictures that looked like me and were barely realistic-looking enough to maybe be usable. I understand that AI isn't deterministic and can make mistakes, and I wasn't expecting all 80 pictures to be perfect, or even good. But to have nearly all of them be unusable, and many of them showing me as the wrong race, is worse than I would have ever expected. I cannot recommend strongly enough avoiding this site.

The company promised me a refund with 7 days money back if I didn't like the quality. Didn't followed up nor responded after the first email. I didn't want to make this review, but it made me frustrated. Don't make promises you cant keep *UPDATE 1*: They have reached out to me and amended the issue. I am glad, I appreciate it.

I was hesitant on using this service as the AI photo generators I was previously using did not yield favorable results. The platform will assess your uploaded photos and give them a rating. Ideally, you want to upload photos that is closest to 100 in rating. I had uploaded photos that were 61/100 and was impressed by the results. I reached out to their support team and asked if it was possible to redo it with better photos. Not only did they credit the account with a redo, they did so with a better tier. Genuinely impressed at both the product and service. If you're a busy body, this product is perfect as it will save you both time and money with better results.

Showed my friend and she thought I'd hired a photographer. I didn't tell her I didn't. Using them on hinge now.