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Don’t sell yourself short. Perhaps your face, like mine, can be used kind of like the intentionally implausible stories of Nigerian scams.

My face looks too much like Jack Black to be taken seriously enough by a potential romance scam victim.

This is not the greatest romance scam in the world. No, this is just a tribute.

Just a matter of opinion!

You'd be surprised how much thirst there is for Jack Black in certain corners of the internet. Admittedly a lot to do with his apparently genial nature and general goodness but still.

> My face will never ever be used for a romance scam.

Imagine your disappointment if you ever find out that it was, and it did better than you ever did.

Soon enough, DALL-E may be able to tweak any face to make it scam-worthy, and GPT will be able to complement it to pluck the heartstrings just so

It would be easier to start from scratch.

Yes making my face look good would be NP-hard

I have had to work so hard not to make a sexual innuendo with that comment.

There's some 20 years of lead time, but if you're willing to wait and have the capital to scale up early, after those two decades you'll have a money printer.