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Re:Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs by jw1224 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:35PM (#31938236)
> Are those real peoples' photos?

Certainly not the portrait photos — they’re unmistakably sourced from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (once you’ve seen enough of them, they’re impossible to miss…)

Re:Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs by alexray on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:38PM (#31938275)
Right! We wanted to make sure not to use real people's photos. It is a bit eery that all of their eyes stay in the same place as you hit shuffle...
Re:Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs by arjvik on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:54AM (#31943240)
Where'd you get the abstract images from?
Re:Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs by hansoolo on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:59PM (#31938537)
What has been seen, cannot be unseen...
Re:Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs by kaoD on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:48AM (#31943583)
What is amazing to me is that I cannot exactly tell why but I immediate recognized the AI source too, even after seeing only the first photo!

Our brains are truly amazing pattern-matching machines...

Re:Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs by probabletrain on Friday July 01, 2022 @05:31AM (#31944173)
The eyes are in the same location for all pictures, which I think is a subtle but important clue to our subconscious