Bert Vanhooff_
1 min read

This person does not exist

#genderbasedviolence

I’m looking for a good way to generate thousands of pictures for the gender-violence project. For each case, I need a picture of a woman that fits her (synthetic) name, age and possibly other properties.

I searched for existing collections (e.g., picsum.photos, thispersondoesnotexist.com) but they were not a good fit for my use case: I need more control.

So I looked for a way to generate them myself. Requirements:

  • Run locally (no cost)
  • Fast (max a few seconds)
  • Specific prompt for each generation
  • ~ 500x500 pixels
  • Dithered (for thermal printing)

So I landed on ComfyUI

ComfyUI workflow
The ComfyUI workflow

I used an open source model + LoRA to get generation time down to 15 seconds per image on a MacBook Pro M4.

Next up:

  • Try some other models - this one generates quite similar faces. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Seems really cool.
  • Batch this up to generate actual images for my fake persons.
  • Vary the prompt per generation.
back to log