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The verdict loop is closed. When a majority of readers say a people's portrait looks off, the site renders candidate replacements, scores them against the people's real-photo baseline where one exists, and makes the chosen render the group's portrait.
The page says so in one line: this portrait replaced one that readers said looked off, with their count. Twenty faces changed on September 25, the first day the loop ran.
Readers stay the judge. The other candidates remain in the gallery for votes, the new portrait faces the same one-tap verdict, and the open dataset, which passed 1,400 reader verdicts by September 21, keeps every verdict cast on the retired portrait.
Under the hood
- The queue holds current lead portraits whose reader tally shows a majority 'looks off'. A portrait readers have already voted out of first place is skipped, because nothing is left to replace.
- Candidates render through the catalog's own portrait pipeline and are scored by the same vision analysis the generator comparison uses, against the people's real-photo baseline where one exists. The score is a pre-filter; reader votes decide.
- The chosen candidate is written last, so the gallery's existing cover rule makes it the lead portrait with no pinning and no new state. A later reader vote can still change it.
- The flagged portrait is retired, not erased: it leaves the page, and its verdicts stay in the published dataset marked as belonging to a deleted image.
- The notice is computed from the retired portrait's own tally, "This portrait replaced one that N of M readers said looked off", and appears when the current portrait came from this loop, not from any other path.
- portraits replaced in one day
- 20
- reader verdicts by September 21
- 1,421
See it on the site
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Related build notes
- Aug 5, 2026One tap under every portrait asks: does this look right?The Verdict Strip puts one question under each portrait, needs no account, and hands every reader the next face nobody has judged.
- Aug 17, 2026Reader verdicts become an open research datasetOne-tap verdicts now land in a public table: 173 judgments across 108 groups in v5, with the labels open under CC BY 4.0.
- May 14, 2026Portraits that respect era, style and mixed heritageEvery portrait now starts from a prompt drafted for its group, and a style register keeps modern diaspora peoples out of historical costume.