I always find these interesting. These renderings imagine Beethoven and Isaac Newton as bros with movie star looks, but present Shakespeare and Mozart as dweebs.
Obviously, some of these must be pretty accurate because the AI program had portraits to work from. Other images are formed from sculptures, so there’s more guesswork involved. Still others have no grounding in reality since the subjects are mythical figures, so the modern images have been formed by modernizing an artist’s imagination.
It turns out that, through some astounding time warp, the Shroud of Turin was actually formed from the image of Jake Gyllenhaal!
Man, that site is designed as if it were supposed to be a slideshow. As I scrolled down I kept thinking the caption was for the following photo below, not the photo I just scrolled by. I didn’t notice until Sir Isaac Newton looked like George Washington. I had also thought Henry the VIII was Lucifer, and Lucifer was Botticelli.
I was wondering if Jesus Christ was going to look like Kenny Loggins circa 1985, or maybe Obi Wan Kenobi c. 1999. Closest we got was the Shroud of Turin, which looks kinda like Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi). Although St. Joseph kinda looks like what I was expecting a non-historically accurate Jesus to look like. I guess it’s the family resemblance.
There are some good uses for AI. This certainly isn’t one of them. I’m also getting tired of things claiming AI when they could just have easily been done by a standard program written decades ago.
I despise AI and all of the little monkeys that play with it. Everything on that site is wrong. The noses, eyes and mouths are all off, just as a starting point. The human race should work on it’s “natural” intelligence before attempting to teach machinery.
And yes, Photoshop has been doing this for decades, but it requires a learning curve, judgement and patience. These seem to be lacking these days.
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Is it just me or did Julius Caesar look like the one actor from Yellowstone?