Hi HN,

I'm an indie maker and just launched a small side project: Celebrity AI Image Generator – a tool that lets users generate AI images of celebrities in different styles, outfits, or fantasy settings. You can select from a preset style or enter custom prompts to create stylized portraits.

This is an experiment in combining diffusion models with prompt tuning, with a lightweight frontend. I’m trying to keep it fast, fun, and privacy-respecting (no data is stored, no login required).

Some technical details:

Backend powered by pollinations.ai with some fine-tuned models for stylistic accuracy.

Hosted on GPU-inference servers with caching.

Frontend is built in Next.js.

Image generation is done via prompt + LoRA-based style adapters.

I'd love to learn:

Does the UX make sense to you?

Are the results interesting or surprising?

What would you add or change to make this tool more useful or fun?

Any concerns from a technical or ethical standpoint?

I know the idea of AI-generated celebrity images may raise some questions around likeness rights, which I’m being cautious about. All generations are clearly synthetic, and I'm considering adding filters to avoid misuse.

If you're curious, here's the link: https://www.aicelebrity.design/ I’d really appreciate your thoughts – thanks in advance!

I'd move on quickly from this. If this worked (I mean if the celebs actually resembled the prompts), you'd get in trouble quickly. As it stands, there's no resemblance, which means the service does not work.

Didn't see any resemblance to the celebrity I asked for (Jarvis Cocker) - so doesn't actually seem to work.

Risky idea but I’ve seen way riskier. This would be considered gray area, akin to the email spam mafia or boomer-extension scammers. You can probably get away with this if kept on the down low and make some coin. Hire a good lawyer and button up all the Ts and Cs, shifting liability as much as possible to the purchaser. Good luck

The generated images are awful, downloadable local models can do a much better job than this.

And then on top of that the entire premise of this website is existentially flawed, either nobody gives a shit about your website and it fades into quick obscurity or it becomes popular and you get sued into the stone age by any and all celebrities whose likeness your model is appropriating (and the agencies that represent them, various creative unions they are part of, etc).

FWIW the former is the actual path this will take because of the low quality of the generated images, so that's actually the best outcome for you.

You.. definitely need some guard rails..

Lol the photos for the Reviews on the main page... have female name.. with male photo..