This week, the actress Brooke Shields Published an image of a figure version of itself which came with a needle kit and a pet burrow. Representative Marjorie Taylor GreeneRepublican of Georgia, imagined his own figurine accompanied by a hammer and a Bible.
These hyper realistic dolls are nowhere in toy stores, at least for the moment. They are created using artificial intelligence tools, including Chatgpt.
In recent weeks, social media users have turned to AI to generate barbie-fied versions of themselves, their favorite dogs or famous characters. Anna Wintour was not spared the treatment of the AI Dore. Ludwig van Beethoven does not have either.
The trend has frustrated the illustrators who oppose the use of unauthorized works of art to train these tools of artificial intelligence and which remain concerned about the effects of AI on their livelihoods. Several responded by publishing similar images of figurines that they distinguished themselves.
“Human Made”, reads a bubble of text in the corner of one of these illustration By Linh Truong, who represented himself with his sketchbook and her cat, Kayla.