What A.I. thinks we look like.
A version of this piece previously appeared in Mojito Volume 2.5, the Mint eNewsletter.
So the other day, Mint Co-Founder and CEO Eric Schoenfeld mentioned in our company Slack channel that one of his kids told him it was possible to ask ChatGPT the following: “Based on my prompts to-date, what do you think I look like?”
A few of us tried it, and the results were…interesting.
Eric’s isn’t too bad. It’s clear that he’s in marketing. Even got the facial hair almost right. (What, are you querying “goatee care”, Eric?)
Here’s Client Service & Content Strategist Tim Disbrow’s commentary on his ChatGPT portrait: “The ‘bot was VERY generous in the hair, physique, and wardrobe department. It knows I wear glasses?! The wrestling poster in the background, check! Movie camera, check! Not sure about the guitar, though…
As for the dog and blanket, when ChatGPT’s Voice Assistant first came out, my daughter was telling it all sorts of things…like that she has a blanket named Blue Blue (seen on the floor here) and that we have two golden retrievers.”
Like Eric and Tim’s portraits, this A.I.-generated image of Senior Art Director Jamie Volansky gets a lot of the visual cues correct. In addition to being an art director/graphic designer by trade, she’s also a fine artist who dabbles in multiple media.
That said, the real Jamie has MUCH better hair than her ChatGPT doppelganger.
We’re guessing that Co-Founder Al Navarro’s ChatGPT prompts are mostly about stereo equipment, fine art, and tailored clothing. Because…well just look at that guy!
Says Al, “The first image ChatGPT made of me depicted me as Caucasian — not Asian (Al’s of Filipino ancestry). And then it kept getting my clothes very wrong. So it took a few revisions to get to this iteration. Which Eric refers to as ‘Hal Navarro’.”
Speaking of getting race wrong, here’s the first version of Associate Creative Director Brad Leszczynski that ChatGPT came up with.
After telling ChatGPT that he’s Caucasian — and to change to business attire, here’s the version the A.I. came up with.
If you’ve tried this prompt before (and ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVEN’T), we’d love to see some ChatGPT portraits of Mojito readers. Send to info@mintadv.com or look for our social posts on the topic and post in a reply/comment.
Also, if you know any of us in real life, who do you think ChatGPT got closest to the real thing?