Press and Media

Boilerplate

Copy this verbatim. It is the description we use everywhere, so quoting it keeps coverage consistent with our own materials.

The Curious Thing makes personalized AI portrait keepsakes: you upload a photo, choose a magical world (or an art style for a whole-family portrait, or a persona for a pet portrait), and an AI portrait repaints your child, your whole family, or your pet, with their real faces preserved. The portrait prints as a premium custom jigsaw puzzle, a gallery-wrapped canvas, a framed canvas, or a cozy fleece blanket, shipped free in the US, and every order also includes a digital copy. You approve a proof before anything prints, and the original photo is deleted within 24 hours.

Short version, for a gift guide line: a photo of your child becomes a painted portrait of them as the hero of a magical world, printed as a puzzle, canvas or blanket. Puzzles from $45, free US shipping, and nothing prints until a parent approves the proof.

How We Handle a Child's Photo

This is the part of the category most worth scrutinizing, so here is our position in full. Every claim below is enforced in the product, not just stated in a policy, and each one is checkable against our Privacy Policy.

• The uploaded photo is deleted within 24 hours. It is removed automatically, not on request, and not held for a marketing archive.
• We never train models on customer images. Every generation call carries the provider's training opt-out.
• A child's name never reaches the model. Prompts carry appearance descriptors only, never the name a parent typed.
• A parent approves a watermarked proof before anything prints. Approval and payment are both required, and the watermark comes off only after payment confirms.
• No customer's child appears in our marketing without separate written permission. The children shown across this site are a fixed, permissioned pair used in every example.
• We sell a finished object, not a generator. The output is one portrait a family keeps, printed on a physical product, not an open-ended feed of AI content.

Media Contact

Steve Canfield, Founder

press@thecuriousthing.com
We reply to press enquiries within one business day, Monday to Friday.

Working to a deadline? Say so in the subject line and we will move it to the front of the queue. We can turn around samples, custom renders for a specific world, and answers on how the pipeline works.