Show HN: ThisTouristDoesNotExist (virtual tourists at real landmarks)

Inspired by thispersondoesnotexist.com, I built thistouristdoesnotexist.com, a lightweight weekend project that generates a new “synthetic tourist at a real landmark” on each refresh while keeping identity cues consistent across scenes, driven here by Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka Nano Banana).

It runs on a tiny DigitalOcean droplet with a simple pipeline that pairs batches of synthetic faces with a curated landmark list and tries to avoid reusing the same face–place combo.

I would love feedback on failure cases, hope you like it!

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nashashmi · 5h ago

Cross body shadow. I found two pictures with two different shadows running across the body and it was crossing at a different angle.

Some of the pictures came up multiple times. Made me think there was caching

xucian · 10h ago

cool idea, dead internet theory needs more adoption

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Show HN: ThisTouristDoesNotExist (virtual tourists at real landmarks)

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