TikTokers are flocking to the viral photo app Remini for AI-generated corporate headshots, but some say it's editing their bodies beyond recognition

• Remini, the top free app in Apple's App Store, is gaining tremendous popularity among TikTokers.
• Many people are using it for AI-generated headshots for their LinkedIn profiles, and with impressive results.
• However, several users said it made them unrecognizably skinnier, which they found amusing or troubling.

A photo app called Remini has gone wildly viral on TikTok, with countless users employing its AI technology to transform casual photos into believable professional headshots. 

In one of the most popular videos about Remini, with a staggering 31.2 million views, the TikToker @gracesplace revealed her enviable results, which had one commenter "crying in photographer." 

Over the weekend, @Gracesplace, who also showcased her LinkedIn profile under the name Grace White in a separate video, submitted a photo of herself in her car, from which Remini generated several options of the TikToker in pristine hair and makeup and decked out in a blazer.

Remini was launched in 2019 by Milan-based tech company Bending Spoons and it has quickly skyrocketed to popularity. The #remini hashtag is associated with 1.4 billion cumulative views on TikTok. It's also currently the number one "Free App" on Apple's charts. 

In addition to corporate headshots, Remini has gone viral for another popular use case: AI-generated baby photos that purport to show users what their unborn children will look like. 

White said in another TikTok that Remini is subscription-based, but she took advantage of a free trial. She then showed her followers how she used the app to render headshots.

First, users select their gender and are prompted to upload up to ten images of themselves, White said. Then, users select a "model image" that reflects the style and composition of the photos they're after. Categories include "trendy," "Korean aesthetic," "travel," and "curriculum." (She chose the latter.)

Finally, a swiping function (which is not unlike a dating app) enables users to narrow down their top picks. 

And White isn't the only creator going mega-viral with her results. The creator @mollie.danielle has 9.7 million views on her Remini reveal video from Sunday.

"AI really said, 'we're gonna make you look spanish'… and im here for it," the creator captioned her video. 

Commenters also cheered her results: "You're on my FYP and you win the AI filter game," one wrote. 

Not everyone is embracing AI photo enhancing, or their results, however. 

Some said the app edited their bodies to be unrecognizably skinnier

While many TikTokers were thrilled with their new headshots, a number of users pointed out something of a troubling trend: the app had substantially changed their weight — with one person saying the app had shaved off 80 to 100 pounds. Another user said that the AI was "fatphobic."

"When you can't use your AI headshots because it took off 80 pounds & everyone would notice," wrote the user @ha.lei.gh on a post documenting her "AI Headshot fail."

The 30-year-old mother of two told Insider she downloaded Remini to update her LinkedIn presence, but that the results ended up giving her a laugh, as well as some fitness inspiration, she joked in a recent TikTok.

"It would be nice if there was an option to input your body type to get a more accurate photo," Agan told Insider. "On the flip side, it's great motivation because now I know what I could look like if I put in the work and lose some weight."

This sentiment was shared by another user, @katelynnaye, who said she was using her Remini photos as "weight loss motivation."

Other users were less inspired and found the AI default to be problematic. The TikToker @Northstarnotes said the app had made her "about 105 lbs" and called the results "bad." And @xoxosarah515, who said she was harnessing the app "to get new headshots as a plus sized girly," was similarly disappointed.

A commenter under @xoxosarah515's post wrote, "When even AI is fat phobic smh" – and the TikToker concurred. "It is," she responded, after a series of queasy emojis.

Remini did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.