Surprise! Artificial intelligence-generated portraits based off artwork from 15th century Europe... kind of suck at depicting people of color.
Because we're apparently always ready to hand over our photos for the sake of a trend, the internet's current obsession is an AI portrait generator that deconstructs your selfies and rebuilds them as Renaissance and Baroque portraits.
Created by researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, AI Portrait Ars is a fun way to see how you would have been perceived if you lived in another time period.
"Portraits interpret the external beauty, social status, and then go beyond our body and face," its creators wrote in the site's "Why" section. "A portrait becomes a psychological analysis and a deep reflection on our existence." Read more...
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