Portraits / Jeffrey#

Image-generation pipeline for canonical jeffrey portraits. Consumes the POI manifest at papers/jeffrey-platter/manifest.json and the assets.aesthetic.computer/jeffreys/ CDN buckets cataloged there.

The platter is the index (read-only pointers). This directory is the workshop (training, generation, sample outputs). The visual analogue of recap/ for jeffrey-pvc voice — same canonical-self pattern, applied to faces instead of audio.

Status#

Scaffolded 2026-04-28. The corpus fetcher is wired; everything downstream of "have a local corpus" is TBD.

Pipeline (planned)#

papers/jeffrey-platter/manifest.json
       │
       ▼  bin/fetch-corpus.mjs
corpus/<bucket>/<filename>            (gitignored — downloaded from CDN)
corpus/index.json                     (manifest + fetch metadata)
       │
       ▼  TBD: bin/face-crops.mjs     (apply manifest POI face boxes to crop training tiles)
crops/face/*.jpg                      (gitignored — N×N face tiles for LoRA/IP-Adapter)
       │
       ▼  TBD: training (LoRA / DreamBooth / IP-Adapter ref set — pick one)
weights/jeffrey-{lora|ipadapter}.safetensors
       │
       ▼  TBD: bin/generate.mjs       (sample portraits given a prompt)
out/<run-id>/                         (gitignored — generated samples)

Commands#

Pull canonical corpus (CDN → local)#

node bin/fetch-corpus.mjs              # all three buckets (shoot + masters + candids)
node bin/fetch-corpus.mjs --shoot      # 55 AV-shoot headshots only
node bin/fetch-corpus.mjs --masters    # 38 HEIC/JPEG iPhone originals (best for training)
node bin/fetch-corpus.mjs --candids    # 38 JPG derivatives
node bin/fetch-corpus.mjs --force      # re-download even if local copies exist

The fetcher reads papers/jeffrey-platter/manifest.json directly — there is no separate config. To add a new image to the corpus, add it to the manifest and re-run.

Bulk-archive Instagram#

Two paths to bootstrap an instaloader session — pick whichever your account allows:

# Path A (recommended): import session from a logged-in browser
#   - Works around 2FA-flagged accounts where the password API path
#     silently strips the auth cookie (this is what bit @whistlegraph)
#   - One Keychain prompt on first Chrome run, then silent thereafter
bin/ig-import-cookies.py chrome whistlegraph
bin/ig-import-cookies.py firefox aesthetic.computer  # or chrome / brave / arc / edge / safari

# Path B (fallback): login with password
#   - Only works on accounts without 2FA / checkpoints
IG_PASSWORD='...' bin/ig-login.py whistlegraph

# Then archive the full timeline (de-dupes via --fast-update on re-runs)
bin/ig-archive.fish whistlegraph
bin/ig-archive.fish aesthetic.computer

Sessions persist at aesthetic-computer-vault/silo/instaloader-sessions/<account> (the only piece that stays in vault — it's an authenticated cookie). Archives land at portraits/jeffrey/ig-archive/<account>/ (gitignored). Re-running ig-archive.fish only fetches new posts (by shortcode); safe to cron.

On account safety: Instagram's anti-bot detection has flagged @whistlegraph before (see reports/instagram-api-migration-2026-03-29.md). The cookie-import path is safer than password-flow because it piggybacks on a session Instagram has already accepted in your browser — there is no fresh login event for the anti-bot system to evaluate.

Open decisions#

Training approach — face LoRA (~20–60 face tiles, fine-tunes the model) vs IP-Adapter / FaceID (5–10 reference images, no training, identity injected at inference time) vs hybrid. Different tradeoffs on faithfulness, generation speed, base-model lock-in. Pick before scripting bin/face-crops.mjs since the crop format depends on it.
Base model — Flux.1-dev, SDXL, SD 3.5, or something else. Affects which adapter formats apply.
Compute — local on jas's mac (MPS), runpod/lambda (cloud GPU), or fal/replicate (managed). Manifest + corpus are portable; only weights/ and out/ are environment-specific.
Identity-preserving prompt suffix — a stable text fragment that describes jeffrey's appearance for use as a generation hint. Adjacent to but distinct from voice clone metadata.
Consent / use rails — even though jeffrey is the operator and subject, downstream pipelines that publish generated portraits should have an explicit allowlist of where they can render him.

Why here, not under `papers/`#

papers/jeffrey-platter/ is index-only — pointers to where canonical material lives. This directory holds the actual machinery (scripts, weights, samples) that consumes the index. Same separation as papers/whistlegraph-platter/ (index) ↔ system/public/aesthetic.computer/disks/whistlegraph.mjs (the practice surface that uses it).

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