I Used Artificial Intelligence To See How Some Celebrities Would Look If They Lived In Our Times Instead Of Theirs (17 Pics)
"Thisness": The quality in a thing of being here and now or such as it is.
I am Alper Yesiltas, a lawyer and photographer living in Istanbul, Turkey. I've been imagining scenes and capturing memories for about 19 years now. During that time, some of my photos have been edited worldwide in books, magazines, exhibitions, and websites and were awarded in several photo contests.
You may have heard of my previous project called "As If Nothing Happened", in which I depict what some of the lost celebrities would look like if they were alive today, and which I first published on Bored Panda.
I would like to share with you the first collection of images of my new AI-based project called "Thisness". Behind this project lies the question "What would some iconic people look like if they lived in our time instead of living in theirs?" I look forward to your feedback and suggestions.
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Amelia Earhart - American Aviation Pioneer And Writer, The First Female Aviator To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean
She’d be an astronaut on the International Space Station now, and most likely in the running for a (near) future Mars mission, so would be wearing a NASA uniform.
Absolutely she would fit right in today. Extremely sad we may never know the truth of what happened to her.
In general, the people I work with using artificial intelligence are the people I personally want to see the photorealistic version of or adapted to the present day. I think these people are indeed some of the greatest icons that ever lived, and I am very curious about them.
Rosa Parks - American Activist In The Civil Rights Movement Best Known For Her Pivotal Role In The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa parks became the face of the bus boycott, cause she was more socially acceptable than a pregnant teenage girl, still very important woman
I'm South Indian and she could easily be one of my aunts 😍 resemblance to many of my mums cousins
Sad part is she really didn't do this first. There was a girl of darker skin who did this but they didn't want her as the face of the movement...smh it be your own people
Claudette Colvin started it but she was too dark for a spokesperson according to the NAACP.
Sharon Tate - American Actress And Model
It's such a shame - she was such a good actress and so good at comedic timing, but she's best known for how she died.
You took the words right out of my, well, fingers. I haven't seen any other pictures where she looks so Julianne Moore-ish.
Load More Replies...Charles Manson, and his crew, were disgusting, delusional, maniac's! This poor woman...
I think that's the point. Modern hair coloring trends are different from that time.
Load More Replies...I am very happy that the works I create are reflections of my personal curiosity. There are dozens more people I would like to add to this series, so I will continue working on this project. Keep an eye on my socials for even more images of icons like these.
Benjamin Franklin - Founding Father Of The United States
More like Chris Elliott in Scary Movie... "Take my strong hand"
Load More Replies..."Well, kids, I drive a sensible car. I live in a 3-bedroom house in a quiet neighbourhood, I eat healthily, drink wine on social occasions and play lead guitar in a thrash metal band" - Benjamin Franklin, Yesterday morning over cornflakes
Looks like a cross between Woody Harrelson and the guy who played Randall Flagg in the 90's version of The Stand. randall-fl...fa25a0.gif
The REAL founding fathers are the Native Americans who were here first. 🤬
Replace 'Founding Fathers' with 'Second Wave of Immigrants' who virtually wiped-out the first wave with smallpox and bullets
Load More Replies...Helen Keller - American Author, Disability Rights Advocate, Political Activist And Lecturer
She would never have been able to accomplish what she did if it hadn't been for Anne Sullivan, her teacher and lifelong companion. Helen went to Radcliffe college (the women's college at Harvard), and Anne spelled out the lectures into Helen's hand, as well as the textbooks not available in braille, which was most of them.
I agree. I read the story of Annie Sullivan long before that of Helen Keller. She is a true hero.
Load More Replies...It also helped, as Keller stated herself, that she came from wealthy family. Don't forget that she was a socialist that, at one point, wrote a letter supporting eugenics and euthanasia. Anne Sullivan has her own incredible story and deserves more mention in her own right.
Anne is the only hero of this story and the actual activist. Helen believed in eugenics, was a rich spoiled brat and an all around terrible person.
Yes, Anne Sullivan had a hand in Helen's sucess however, I saw a documentary recently and it seems that I believe it was Thomas Edison who as well had a hand in Helen's sucess. Or perhaps it was Alexander Graham Bell. Not quite sure.
Helen Keller was blind (and deaf, I believe) , she couldn't see. She's not staring at you...
Load More Replies...To be honest, as a fan, I'm really tempted to be able to make small touches that reflect my own perspective on people I admire. That's what makes me passionate about the power of AI-generated images.
Greta Garbo - Swedish-American Actress, Regarded As One Of The Greatest Screen Actresses, Famous For Her Many Films, Especially "Ninotchka"
She was born in Sweden to Swedish parents. She became a US citizen when she was 45 years old or so.
Load More Replies...(Sir) Charlie Chaplin - British Comic Actor, Filmmaker, And Composer Who Became A Worldwide Icon Through His Screen Persona, "The Tramp"
He reminds me a bit of Sasha Baron Cohen like this - we're so accustomed to seeing him as ridiculous characters, and he looks perfectly respectable when he's not in costume.
He was anything but perfectly respectable, but he was handsome.
Load More Replies..."He had to flee twice to Mexico with a minor he had impregnated and was the source of a change in California's paternity law." His popularity declined in the 1940s due to controversies over his affairs with women much younger than him and a paternity lawsuit. ...
You forgot to mention prophet: Modern Times, The Great Dictator etc.
He only wore the moustache as the tramp, he didn't have it off set.
He looks like Patrick Warburton when he played Lemony Snicket, or am I just watching A Series Of Unfortunate Events too much?
His wife was 13 when he first met and became enamored with her. Child abuser.
Even though I read reviews from many different perspectives on AI-generated images, most people want me to keep doing what I'm doing. This really makes me very happy and inspired to create more.
Gene Kelly - American Actor, Dancer, Singer, Filmmaker, And Choreographer, Famous For His Many Films, Especially "Singin' In The Rain"
Watching Gene Kelly dance always makes me happy. 'American in Paris' is one of my favourite films, even though it's got almost no plot, because there's so much dancing in it!
Same here. You can tell he loves it so much that it makes you love it too.
Load More Replies...Love Gene. "Singin' In The Rain" is one of my fave movies, and was my annual Christmas movie for years. Started when I was 10. Christmas morning, was... probably 9 or 10am, I ran out of my room, screamed "merry x'mas everyone!"... to an empty house. Turns out my parents, together with my baby brother, had went to one of their friends' place for an all day Christmas party, leaving me alone in the house. Only thing that brought a smile to my face that day was the movie that was playing on the TV - yeap, "Singin' In The Rain". I stopped celebrating Christmas after that year, but for years after on Christmas I would replay that movie on VHS, and later on DVD. Even went to a local film festival where they played that on the big screen one year.
I am so sorry, that sounds awful. I hope they gave you a good explanation and tried to make some kind of amends, not that anything is going to justify that sort of behaviour to a ten-year-old. Christmas sucks, but I'm glad Gene Kelly was there to make things a bit better.
Load More Replies...Yep. That's sure is Gene Kelly. I'm so confused. Aren't they suppose to look different than they actually did look?
I don't think their face so much. Just updated to modern hairstyles, glasses, etc. But, since AI depends on user data, faces tend to look different, anyway.
Load More Replies...Alexander Hamilton - American Revolutionary, Statesman And Founding Father Of The United States
Yeah....that musical has ruined my perception of the founding fathers in the best way.
Load More Replies...That makes sense but what about Mads Mikkelson? It'd be more of the hair and a few facial features but not a complete copy or anything.
Load More Replies...So I’m not American and have literally never seen like a drawing or picture or something (idk lol) of Alexander Hamilton, like how he would of actually looked like. But I’ve watched Hamilton, and now I’m rlly confused cuz this looks so different to Lin Manuel Miranda lol
Lauren Bacall - American Actress, Famous For Her Many Films, Especially "To Have And Have Not"
Yeah, maybe a little...I can hear her version of "Multi-pass."! lol
Load More Replies...Young Bacall was much more stunning than this tepid joke. Dumb project.
I honestly like her 1940s look much better. She oozed class in every pore.
Just makes you realize how f'in awesome they were in the day when their clothes were bang on!
Babe Ruth - The American Professional Baseball Player, Considered The Most Famous Baseball Player In The Entire World
AH but the candy bar is called Baby Ruth. That was done so they didn't have to pay him a royalty.
Load More Replies...i always thing he was part black....passing to get over the color line...
Isn't baseball like American Football where it's only really professionally played in America? Therefore being the most famous player in the World is just really the best known in America?
Yoooo you really are depicting horrible people. Please do your research.
not sure, but i think you may be confusing him with Jackie Robinson. He was also a famous baseball player and was indeed African American.
Load More Replies...Ginger Rogers - American Actress, Dancer And Singer During The Golden Age Of Hollywood, Famous For Her Many Films, Especially "Top Hat"
Some of these are so weird. Why would some look like completely different people?
Load More Replies...I have to wonder what exactly is the point of these "portraits"? So far all I've seen is classic actresses robbed of their own unique and stunning beauty in an attempt to shove them into our modern beauty standards (which is, basically, to homogenize everyone, from what I can see). I mean, Ginger Rogers is unrecognizable here! So...why?
Huh? Are you kidding? I've watched many Ginger Rogers films. This isn't her. Stupid project of useless fakes.
Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we're out together dancing cheek to cheek... qué escena...
Audrey Hepburn - British Actress, Famous For Her Many Films, Especially "Breakfast At Tiffany's"
Yeah, they didn’t have to include her in this article. She was always timeless, so could’ve been dropped into almost any modern era and fit in just fine—-she was too progressive for anything further back than the 20th century, but would fit into both the present and the future.
Load More Replies...Artificial intelligence not very intelligent on this. She’s a different person and those arms look really weird.
After everything Audrey went through in her time, I don’t see how she would have dark circles under her eyes now but not then.
Makeup and early photoshop (I'm not kidding, they did edit photos).
Load More Replies...Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British[a] actress and humanitarian. Born in Ixelles, Brussels to an aristocratic family, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands
Load More Replies...If Instagram influencers were used to train the so-called artificial intelligence, warped elbows to pinch the waist (bad photoshopping) is the only natural result.
Load More Replies...Totally fails to capture Hepburn's spakle and charm. As a professional photographer I hate this bogus fake c**p.
Lovely eyes. Her (typical) mom said she had a boyish figure! (She was malnourished due to the german invasion)
Al Capone - Nickname "Scarface", American Gangster And Businessman Who Attained Notoriety During The Prohibition Era As The Co-Founder And Boss Of The Chicago Outfit
Maybe he'd have been an entirely different person if he'd had access to penicillin and the syphilis hadn't rotted his brain.
So the modern Capone would’ve been a healthier slimmed down version?
He was petrified of needles, and wouldn't get the penicillin shot to get rid of syphilis. In the end, he was like a toddler mentally, and was skin and bones. All because of the syphilis.
Crazy to think that the most famous gangster in the world was scared of needles lol
Load More Replies...Humphrey Bogart - Nicknamed "Bogie", An American Film And Stage Actor Famous For His Many Films, Especially "Casablanca"
But it looks much more like his son, the author Stephen Bogart. I wonder if they used the wrong photo. (And the scarf thing is definitely not Bogie!)
Load More Replies...Looks way more like Andy Garcia. Bogart never looked anything like that. Just shows the ridiculousness of this endeavor.
Henry Ford - American Industrialist, Business Magnate, Founder Of The Ford Motor Company, And Chief Developer Of The Assembly Line Technique Of Mass Production
...and fervent antisemite, Hitler awarded him the highest german decoration for foreigners in 1938.
So basically, he’d be the king of the MAGAts nowadays. Probably even try for a run at the presidency—-the question being, would he run with or against drumpf?
Load More Replies...Ford doubled the wages of his employees, "...to be precise, he felt that higher wages were necessary to retain workers who could handle the relentless pressure [of the assembly line]...". A lesson forgotten by today's shareholders and multi-billionaires.
He also did it so that his employees could afford a car, and eventually increase sales.
Load More Replies...Interesting how AI gives him an Elon Musk wardrobe/background (tee hee)
Christopher Columbus - Italian Explorer And Navigator Who Completed Four Voyages Across The Atlantic Ocean, Opening The Way For The Widespread European Exploration And Colonization Of The Americas
He was an absolute horrible human being. He is right up there with Adolf Hitler. Please don't down vote because I stated the truth.
Upvoting you and downvoting the genocidal rapist.
Load More Replies...Not only was he a horrible person, he didn't even discover anything. He missed India by an entire ocean and the vikings had been to America long before him
Right. It's not true that "Columbus found America." Columbus just found himself in America.
Load More Replies...Actually nobody knows what he look like, he never had his portrait done. The common image we know of him was just the 15th century version of a stock image of an Italian nobleman.
I'm sorry, I just don't understand the point of this. All of these people would look exactly the same as they did, except for modern clothing and maybe a modern hairstyle. For some of these even the hairstyle hasn't really changed much, so it's basically just putting them in modern clothes. So what? Seriously. I'm not trying to be mean, I just don't understand it at all.
Modern make-up, modern clothes and a modern photographic composition, all tried to be created and combined with AI.
Load More Replies...I loved scrolling through these photos! For me, these photos transformed untouchable legends into real people.
For all the people who "don't understand" or comment how "awful" or bad these are or say nasty things about the individuals- REALLY? YOU took the time to look at each one AND to make a rude comment! Why do you have to knock someone else's creativity or comment on the lives of people you never knew personally? Here's an idea- if you don't find something interesting or disagree with how/why it was done, how about you stroll on by? Is it REALLY that difficult to hit your back arrow or move on to something you DO like, or do you just look at projects like this because you have nothing better to do than be rude?
I can't compare them because most of them are unknown to me and the name doesn't ring a bell.
Why make all the women offensively and unrealistically skinny? It takes away from them and makes your work look bad
But that was how Audrey Hepburn's figure was like, thanks to an early childhood filled with Great Depression-fueled malnutrition and spending her formative years further food-deprived as a result of WWII raging on in Europe.
Load More Replies...very nice! Check also https://wansait.com/tranzit/ for AI images of old times writers in contemporary context. edgar_alla...45451c.jpg
I'm sorry, I just don't understand the point of this. All of these people would look exactly the same as they did, except for modern clothing and maybe a modern hairstyle. For some of these even the hairstyle hasn't really changed much, so it's basically just putting them in modern clothes. So what? Seriously. I'm not trying to be mean, I just don't understand it at all.
Modern make-up, modern clothes and a modern photographic composition, all tried to be created and combined with AI.
Load More Replies...I loved scrolling through these photos! For me, these photos transformed untouchable legends into real people.
For all the people who "don't understand" or comment how "awful" or bad these are or say nasty things about the individuals- REALLY? YOU took the time to look at each one AND to make a rude comment! Why do you have to knock someone else's creativity or comment on the lives of people you never knew personally? Here's an idea- if you don't find something interesting or disagree with how/why it was done, how about you stroll on by? Is it REALLY that difficult to hit your back arrow or move on to something you DO like, or do you just look at projects like this because you have nothing better to do than be rude?
I can't compare them because most of them are unknown to me and the name doesn't ring a bell.
Why make all the women offensively and unrealistically skinny? It takes away from them and makes your work look bad
But that was how Audrey Hepburn's figure was like, thanks to an early childhood filled with Great Depression-fueled malnutrition and spending her formative years further food-deprived as a result of WWII raging on in Europe.
Load More Replies...very nice! Check also https://wansait.com/tranzit/ for AI images of old times writers in contemporary context. edgar_alla...45451c.jpg
