Hi cosors,
have you by any chance had a look at this self-employed gentleman’s website?
If not, go to
https://kispace.de, then to
https://kispace.de/team/. What’s your impression?
At first glance, Mr Karaca appears to be running a successful IT Consulting, Software Engineering and Business-Coaching/Training company that has been around since 2011, and seems to have a dynamic team of six employees working for him, right?! Well, let’s see (by quite literally putting the website images under the magnifying glass):
Now zoom in on that team’s “group picture” and have a good look at those people’s faces (weirdly, my iPad view cuts off their faces, whereas I can see them perfectly fine on my iPhone screen). Then do the same with the image on the IT-Training subpage (fully visible on my iPad, too):
https://kispace.de/training/
I am not posting the images here, as I am unsure about the website disclaimer’s legal implications (
https://kispace.de/disclaimer/) of somebody copying and pasting those images without the website owner’s permission…
All those images are clearly AI-generated, created with the help of an image generator such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E or Midjourney. Look at those bizarrely distorted faces! None of those business attire-clad people in that “team picture” or in that conference room are real!
Methinks k!space is likely a one-man show! Personally, I’d give a business so evidently misleading prospective clients about its size a wide berth… I am not saying the business owner doesn’t know his stuff, but to me this pretentious and weird web presence with AI-generated disfigured imaginary employees reeks of unprofessionalism.
Oh, and the company address, Fraunhoferweg 1, is by no means a location in a science and technology park, but turns out to be a detached house in a quiet residential neighbourhood of Oldenburg, if my navigation app is to be believed. Of course having an office space at an address with this kind of street name could be pure coincidence, but it definitely evokes certain associations, doesn’t it?
Oh, and one more thing that supports my suspicion that k!space’s headcount is much smaller than its website seems to suggest: On eBay-Kleinanzeigen, somebody with the initials ek happens to rent out plenty of coworking office space at the address the company is registered at, for €15 a day, €50 a week or €200 a month:
https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anze...n-unserem-coworking-space/2703167747-277-2647
Which proves once again that DYOR can unearth intriguing information…
Schönes Wochenende
Frangipani