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The AI Selfie Generators Taking Over Gen Z’s Feeds on The Viral List

We round up the most viral moments of the week…

Written and Edited by the YPulse Editorial Team

Dec 9 2022
North America, Western Europe

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AI selfie generators make for cool trends—but raise a couple concerns, too The MyHeritage AI Time Machine is transporting users back in time to see what they would look like in different historical periods. To get images that transform them into a member of a previous generation, all users have to do is upload 25 or more photos of themselves to the MyHeritage site in order to give the AI technology a good representation of their face structure and body proportions and they’ll receive an email notifying them that their AI selfies are ready. While MyHeritage (most known as a genealogy platform) does charge $15 to receive these photos, users are given access to hundreds of downloadable images. Gen Z and Millennial girls especially are eagerly sharing their AI portraits across social media platforms and using them to celebrate their beauty. On TikTok, their photos are shown with the trending audio that says, “How I love being a woman!” As fun as it is, another trending artificial...