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43 People Use ChatGPT To Age Up Childhood Photos, Then Compare Them Side-By-Side With Reality
It’s a ton of fun—and very bizarre!—to try to predict the future. No matter how smart you (think you) are, you can never consider all the possible variables and how they’ll interact with each other. The general hope is that artificial intelligence tools might be (a bit) better at guessing the future than human beings. In some cases, these models are powerfully accurate… though, other times, they are limited and wildly wrong.
Recently, people all over the internet have been comparing photos of what they look like now versus what ChatGPT thinks they’d look like aged up, based on their childhood photos. Our team at Bored Panda has compiled a list of these side-by-side prediction vs. reality pics to show you how eerily (in)accurate generative AI can sometimes be. Scroll down to look at the photos.
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#1
Yall I Can’t With This. Why Did It Make Me So Jacked
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I Asked Chatgpt To Predict What I’d Look Like At 36 Using My 12-Year-Old Photo. Here’s ChatGPT’s Prediction vs. My Actual Face
#3
Ha Love This! Mine Didn’t Come Out Very Similar But I Still Enjoyed Looking At Everyone’s
#4
Not Even Close
#5
That's Close
#6
Mine Was Hysterically Bad. I Gave It A Photo Of 16-Year-Old Me And Asked It To Age It Up To 41
#7
I Asked ChatGPT To Predict What I’d Look Like At 23 Using My 12-Year-Old Photo. Here’s Chatgpt’s Prediction vs. My Actual Face
#8
For Him... Age Is Just A Number
#9
I Asked It To Predict Me At 25… It Got The Hair Right
#10
Asked ChatGPT To Predict What I Would Look Like At 30-Year-Old Based On A Picture Of Me At 4. It Definitely Did Me Dirty. Me At 4, 30-Year-Old Prediction And Me Now At 28
#11
Asked What I’d Look Like Age 40, The Middle Pic. The Last Pic Is Lunch Time Today, Age 41. I Think The 80’s Florals Has Thrown It Off
#12
I Gave It Some Grace And Asked For It To Be Aged Up To 30 (I'm 42) It Made Me A Different Ethnicity (I'm Sicilian)
#13
Damn They Took My Asian Half
#14
I Asked Chatgpt To Predict What I’d Look Like At 33, Using My 10 Year-Old Photo From My 5th Grade Picture. Here’s ChatGPT’s Prediction vs. My Current Face At Age 33
#15
ChatGPT’s Prediction vs. Reality
#16
Just Turned 20 , I Told Chat To Show Me What They Think I’d Look Like In The Next 10 Years
#18
I’m Deaddddddd It Thought I Was A Boy At First And Then Still Proceeded To Get It Entirely Wrong
#19
Showing My 12 Year Old Photo, Asked ChatGPT To Show My 50 Year Old Version. Here Is What It Predicted vs. Real Me
#20
Im Turning 30 And Mine’s Not Even Close
#22
I Asked ChatGPT To Predict What I’d Look Like At 23 Using My 6-Year-Old Photo. Here’s Chatgpt’s Prediction vs. My Actual Face. Haha That's A Huge Difference
#23
I Asked ChatGPT What I'd Look Like As An Adult, Using My 15 Year Old Picture. The Last Photo Is What I Actually Look Like
#25
This Is What It Would Think I Would Look Like At 24 And 36 vs. How I Actually Looked Like At 24 And Look Like At 36
#26
I Asked Chatgpt To Predict What I’d Look Like At 33, Using My 13-Year-Old Photo From My 1st Day In Swedish High School (Högstadiet)
Here’s ChatGPT’s prediction vs. my current face at age 32 (soon to be 33).
#27
They Tried LOL
#28
Not Even Close
#31
I Asked Chatgpt To Predict What I’d Look Like At 30 Using My 5-Year-Old Photo. Here’s ChatGPT's Prediction vs. My Actual Face
#32
Curiosity Got The Best Of Me After I Saw Someone Ask ChatGPT To Predict How’d They Look Based Off A Kid Photo, So I Gave It A Shot And Asked It What I Would Look Like At 34
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
All I can imagine is having an itch on my nose while half-asleep/first waking up in the morning and scrubbing/scratching at my nose, just to have my fingers catch on that CHAIN and rip the studs out...
#33
I Asked ChatGPT To Predict What I Would Look Like At 53 According To Me At 21. This Is The Real Me At 53. What Do You Think?
#34
The First Is My 6th Grade Yearbook Picture. The 2nd Is What It Thought I Would Look At 38. The 3rd Is What I Actually Look Like At 38
#36
13 vs. 25.. Ehh
SpiderWoman13 1 year ago (edited)
HAWT! Sssssssssss!!!!! Slumberous bedroom eyes. (I am an author -- no lust here -- this is purely how I'd describe him.)
#38
Woww Chat GPT. I Use My Pic (24 Years Old) And vs. Me Now
#39
This Ain’t Me (I Asked Chat GPT To Age Up To Age 20)
#40
This Is So Funny Dude I Asked To Age Me To 36. I Used A Pic Of Me At Like 22? I Think. I Just Turned 36
#41
Asked It For Age 26
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Can't even tell what OP actually looks at age 26 like because of all the makeup/photoshop/filters in the actual photo, though :(
#42
AI Is Wildly Inaccurate With Predicting How Children Will Look As They Grow. I Put In A Photo Of Me As Child And Asked It To Predict What I Would Look Like As A 30 Year Old Adult
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I actually have fairly bad prosopagnosia, so tbh, I didn't always see a ton of differences between the AI-generated "aged up" photos and the actual photos, especially the ones where the OP was like "This looks nothing like me!!!!!!" --- to me, they looked fairly similar (except the ones where the OP provided a baby/toddler photo - that's going to be difficult to predict just from baby features.) And - strangely enough - I generally oppose AI strongly (ESPECIALLY AI "art") but doing this seems like it's just for entertainment purposes and isn't being touted as anything but.
Skogsrået 1 year ago (edited)
Ok, now i'm curious to see how it ages me. Anyone else curious to find out how accurate it will age you or just me?
Agfox 1 year ago
Yeah, I had Copilot age a pic of me from 6 to 78 & one of my then girlfriend, now wife, from 18 to 78. Our 3 daughters are still laughing about them. Both of us look about 10 years older
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
I actually have fairly bad prosopagnosia, so tbh, I didn't always see a ton of differences between the AI-generated "aged up" photos and the actual photos, especially the ones where the OP was like "This looks nothing like me!!!!!!" --- to me, they looked fairly similar (except the ones where the OP provided a baby/toddler photo - that's going to be difficult to predict just from baby features.) And - strangely enough - I generally oppose AI strongly (ESPECIALLY AI "art") but doing this seems like it's just for entertainment purposes and isn't being touted as anything but.
Skogsrået 1 year ago (edited)
Ok, now i'm curious to see how it ages me. Anyone else curious to find out how accurate it will age you or just me?
Agfox 1 year ago
Yeah, I had Copilot age a pic of me from 6 to 78 & one of my then girlfriend, now wife, from 18 to 78. Our 3 daughters are still laughing about them. Both of us look about 10 years older
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