My immediate issue, as the father of a mixed son who has just witnessed him spend hours trying to represent his own appearance accurately for an art task at school:
This turns black and mixed people into white-presenting caricatures of themselves. E.g. compare [1] and [2] where the hairstyles of the black people are turned into distinctly "white" hairstyles. My son's hair is closer in texture to that of the man on the right, and there's no way of getting it into the shape of the coloring-in page.
I get there's no ill intent here, but even for far less ethnically ambiguous inputs this "whitewashes" hairstyles and general appearance, and once I saw it I couldn't unsee it.
If my son was the age to want to use this, I'd be concerned about letting him use this, because I know he is sensitive about how he is different to his friends, etc. and this would wildly misrepresent and erase his actual appearance.
This turns black and mixed people into white-presenting caricatures of themselves. E.g. compare [1] and [2] where the hairstyles of the black people are turned into distinctly "white" hairstyles. My son's hair is closer in texture to that of the man on the right, and there's no way of getting it into the shape of the coloring-in page.
I get there's no ill intent here, but even for far less ethnically ambiguous inputs this "whitewashes" hairstyles and general appearance, and once I saw it I couldn't unsee it.
If my son was the age to want to use this, I'd be concerned about letting him use this, because I know he is sensitive about how he is different to his friends, etc. and this would wildly misrepresent and erase his actual appearance.
[3] and [4] is another stark example.
[5] and [6]....
[1] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/group1_original_1024....
[2] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/group1_coloring_page_...
[3] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/portrait4_original_10...
[4] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/portrait4_coloring_pa...
[5] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/basketball2_original_...
[6] https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/basketball2_coloring_...