For some reason, an artist has taken images of celebrities hanging out with their younger selves and given them the AI treatment — and the results are positively nightmarish.
The original work in question was created by Dutch artist Ard Gelinck, whose manipulated images of celebs like Will Smith, Keanu Reeves, and Tom Hanks canoodling with their younger selvesThree short years later, however, the digital art landscape looks a lot different.Ai is fun but also really, really crazy and scary and also moving. 🥹
While Gelinck seems to think his creation is the good kind of scary, others find it to be creepy in the worst way. In one post resharing one of the videos, which ranges from a strange-looking Emma Watson hugging herself as Harry Potter's Hermione Granger to a grown-up Smith posing with himself in the "Fresh Prince" era, an X-formerly-Twitter user"Hey AI what would it look like if a bunch of celebrities were in love with their younger selves?"from the "hideous" clip that, unlike the other celebrity older-younger pairs, featured three Michael Jacksons instead of two — one in...