Iconic Designers as ChatGPT Action Figures
Doing the latest internet trend thing.
Hi all!
Today’s letter is a quickie; my little 3-year-old has been quite sick, and you know how that goes.
As I’m sure you’ve seen, ChatGPT can now create action figure toys in your likeness (well, sort of). To do this, you can crib these instructions from Mo News:
Upload a picture of yourself to ChatGPT.
Ask it to make an action figure toy of the person in the photo.
Specify that you want a full figure displayed in its original blister pack.
Tell it: my figure always has... (insert objects of your choice here).
Below is my action figure. It took several edits to get to this point and I still look nothing like myself:
Anyhow, I tried this prompt for some notable design figures, and here’s what we got…
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Hey! Multiple creative industries have been fighting to keep AI out. Writers and actors actually went on strike over it (among other things) for months! I was one of them! Plus AI is a huge environmental drag on resources. It's cute but...it would be a bummer to see substacks get flooded with AI.
AI is just beyond stupid. I won’t be reading here anymore.