Remini: AI photo assistant generates application photos – useful but bizarre
If application letters can be generated with ChatGPT, why not application photos with the Remini app. In the AI application, Android and iOS users upload at least eight self-portraits, select a motif and receive AI photos tailored to the user. A special image motif is booming on the video portal TikTok and the job platform LinkedIn: After you select the “Curriculum” image style, the AI generates a double in a suit and tie. The function is free – and saves you having to go to a professional photographer if you are satisfied with the result. The pictures are at least quite usable for the profiles on Indeed, LinkedIn, Xing and other professional platforms.
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To use the application image filter, download the app from the Google Play Store or App Store. It is owned by the Italian company Bending Spoons, which also acquired Evernote a while ago. Remini offers a free test phase, for which you still have to take out a subscription for 9.99 euros – which can of course be canceled immediately, which means that there are no costs. A one-off payment of EUR 5.99 is required to create fifty profile pictures using the AI avatars function. Without it, you can only apply filters or enhance photos.
Create application photos and LinkedIn profile pictures
Once downloaded, open the app and navigate to the column called AI Photos. There you upload at least eight self-portraits from your photo library or snap them with your smartphone camera. For an application photo, it is worth uploading images in the same professional style, because an AI image generator uses them as models for the output. After you have uploaded your pictures, they end up on Bending Spoon’s cloud servers – so Remini does not generate the AI photos locally.
After uploading the photos you can select three genders. After selecting “Female”, for example, categories open with which you can define the style of the AI image: Top picks, Multiverse, Trendy, Aesthetic, Travel, Curriculum and Casual. To create an application image, however, applicants only need the Curriculum image type. After a tap on “Use this model picture”, the AI starts to generate the application photo. In addition, after selecting female, users can have pregnancy, wedding and children’s pictures generated.
An application portrait generated with the gender female and the category curriculum.
(Image: Image: Created with Midjourney and Remini by heise online.)
With the gender “Male”, on the other hand, there is also the image motif of a firefighter – and after selecting the gender type “Other” users have access to all motifs. The waiting time for generation depends heavily on the load on the server. In our test, it took about ten minutes to generate the first AI application image and about three minutes for the second image.
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An application portrait generated with the gender male and the category curriculum.
(Picture: Created with Midjourney and Remini by heise online.)
Although Remini produces pictures faster than a professional photographer with the AI photo function, their quality remains questionable. Several users reported that although they only uploaded their face in the selfies, the AI generated an application image of them in scantily clad clothes. The phenomenon is similar to the often sexualizing AI recordings of the Lensa app.
In our test with the gender Male, Remini also generated portraits where the outline of the face looks blocky compared to the original. The break in reality only becomes noticeable with the full-body portraits: In our test, the body circumference of the AI duplicate looked significantly thicker than the original. The thumbs also look unnaturally crooked in the AI image. It is therefore advisable to only use close-up image types for the Curriculum image type. If you just need a quick application picture for an annoying company job portal or for a LinkedIn profile picture, this motif is even useful. In this case, usable means: If you skim the CV or a LinkedIn profile with the picture, you would not recognize that it was generated by an AI.
What else the Remini app can do
Users can use the Enhance option to flatten the pixelated textures of their photo. This works with blurry, underexposed and outdated photographs. The user imports a photo, selects the photo and presses Enhance. The app sends the image to the developer’s cloud servers, after which users receive the edited photo. This can be edited again with three other filters: colors, background enhancer, face beautifier. What is striking about the image quality is that the AI generates some details, such as the individual hair roots of the person.
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The subject looks blurry before being enhanced by Remini’s filter. (Image: Screenshot)
Data protection at Remini
According to its privacy policy, the app adheres to the protection of personal data, in accordance with the GDPR. Like many other AI image generators, such as Lensa, Remini also stores the uploaded images on its own servers and the servers of its service providers. Remini should delete face data for generating AI photos from its own servers after 30 days. In Remini, users will also find several trackers under Settings/Privacy Settings/Profiling, which, according to their description, store data for up to three years. In our test, however, these were switched off in the app’s default setting.
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