Are AI headshots OK for LinkedIn?
5 min The honest answer is that it depends on what the tool did to your face. Redrawing you is a problem. Relighting and cropping the photo you actually took is not.
Comparisons.
AI headshot services and free tools measured against each other, with prices and dates.
Why AI headshots look slightly off, and which tells are fixable
5 min People can usually sense a generated portrait without being able to say why. The tells are specific, and some come from ordinary retouching pushed too far rather than from generation.
An AI headshot or a photographer: what each is actually for
5 min These are not competing products. One buys you a better photograph, the other buys you a better version of the photograph you already have. The choice is mostly about what you already own.
Free AI headshot generators: what free usually costs
5 min Free is a real business model, not a trick. But it is paid for somehow, and the four common ways are worth recognising before you upload a dozen photos of your face.