AI image making

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Holding a face across a set

Lesson 7 of 12 in AI image making.

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Describing a person gets you a different person every time, because a description names a region of possible faces rather than a face. Anything with a model in it therefore needs an identity anchor: a reference image, a trained adapter, or a product feature built for the purpose.

A reference sheet pinned on a wall shows one woman's face from four angles. Below it is a row of five small photographs of her in different places. In the third, her face is slightly different, and a red pencil circle marks it.
The third frame is someone else. Check every face against the sheet, at full size.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The same described person arriving as a different person each run.”

    • Identity drift
    • Product fidelity
    • Material confusion
    • Anchor image
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “An image the model conditions on so the identity persists.”

    • Fidelity
    • Face reference
    • Context bleed
    • Delivery spec
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “One person, several angles and expressions, generated as a reference set.”

    • Hero image
    • Outpainting
    • Clean-up
    • Character sheet

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