2023-07-26 18:31:55
By: KAI FRANZKE JR. and JENNA MUELLER
How do I look with a six pack? Or as a pregnant woman? What will our children look like one day? New apps create images of your life that lies ahead of you. Or memories that didn’t even exist. Artificial intelligence makes it possible.
Touch up pimples, fuller lips or a slimmer waist – no problem. There have been apps for years that many influencers use to edit their photos. Artificial intelligence now takes cheating to a whole new level.
Social media is currently teeming with these AI-generated photos. Users can quickly conjure up a six-pack or a pregnancy belly. You order the AI to create an application photo or let it show you what your child might look like later.
Of course not all real – but a funny gimmick!
BILD reporters Kai Franzke Jr. (29) and Jenna Müller (23) tested it – and let AI invent the future for them:
Everything is real here: This is what BILD reporters Kai Franzke Jr. and Jenna Müller actually look like
Photo: Christian Spreitz
For the photos, the BILD reporters gave eight selfies to one of the currently most popular AI apps. And then told her what to do with it. And: They compared the photos with real shots from their childhood.
The result: while some images look very realistic, the AI sometimes gets a little lost in its imagination. Not only with Kai’s six-pack photo. Have a look here:
Whether in the original (left) or with AI (right): Klein-Kai melts everyone’s heart. At the beginning of 2000, next to Sister Annika (left), the hair gel was apparently empty, the AI planted it back in reporter Franzke’s hair
Photo: privat, privat/Remini
His big day: KI-Kai starts school! Although the BILD reporter didn’t wear glasses at school, the AI gave him one. Look closely: the AI couldn’t really decide on the eyes
Photo: privat/Remini
Sporty: KI-Kai begins a career as a professional basketball player! The app fulfills dreams that would never have been possible: Kai as a professional athlete – even as a basketball player at just 178 centimeters tall. The Rhinelander would have preferred to see himself at 1. FC Köln
Photo: privat/Remini
Six pack in three minutes: This is how the AI sees a muscle Kai! The face has a certain resemblance, but the rest? Well, dreaming is allowed
Photo: privat/Remini
Fabricated look: This is how the Business-Kai app looks
Photo: privat/Remini
Kai on vacation. This is what the AI and the real Kai have in common: they prefer to relax under the palm trees
Photo: privat/Remini
Kai junior becomes senior. Artificial intelligence created Papa-Kai holding a baby. Congratulations on the AI baby!
Photo: privat/Remini
The AI introduces: Prof. Dr. Kai Carl Gunther Franzke Sr. Cool look in old age and with the gray hair it’s already starting
Photo: privat/Remini
BILD reporter Jenna Müller as a little grin! Some users have their Mini-Me created via the app to see what their offspring could look like one day
Photo: privat/Remini
The real (left) and the AI Jenna (right) in school age. Not that bad! There are a few similarities between the original and the AI photo
Photo: privat, privat/Remini
Suddenly on a luxury holiday thanks to AI – that’s also possible. And: If you prefer to see yourself hiking, order that
Photo: privat/Remini
So Jenna could walk to the altar. With the bridal model, however, there is only a choice between two dresses
Photo: privat/Remini
In AI Life, Jenna is a doctor by profession. You can still choose between jobs with the police, as a flight attendant or as a lawyer
Photo: privat/Remini
Not only children can invent the AI. You can also conjure yourself up with her like here
Photo: privat/Remini
This is what Jenna could look like as a mother with a child in her arms. Here, too, the AI has problems with the display of the eyes
Photo: privat/Remini
How will I look when I’m old? The AI has an answer for that too – and even that doesn’t come without wrinkles
Photo: privat/Remini
This is how the AI photos were created
Artificial intelligence is on everyone’s lips. There are dozens of providers in the app stores and on social media. In the test, the BILD reporters mainly worked with “Remini”, the image processing app from the Italian company “Bending Spoon”. It is currently the most popular AI app with a total of over 100 million downloads.
For the senior photos, they had to switch to the “Face App” because “Remini” does not yet offer a model for this. Other alternative apps with an AI function are, for example, “CapCut”, “Lensa” or “Picsart”.
The AI spits out about six variants per model (e.g. six-pack).
Photo: Christian Spreitz
The gimmick is not free
► Users can initially test “Remini” for three days free of charge. After that, however, the app costs ten euros a week or 80 euros a year if you don’t cancel in good time.
In order for the AI to generate an imaginary life for you, you must first upload at least eight selfies of yourself and select your gender. This is how the AI learns what you look like. You can then choose between different templates for professions, environments or life situations.
But then you need a little patience: For the first generation with new pictures, the AI needs up to 20 minutes, then it provides a selection of about six photos. With the same photo selection, it only takes a few minutes afterwards.
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The disadvantages of the AI apps
► The photos are very prone to errors. The AI has no problems with portrait pictures, but hands and arms are often still distorted or hardly recognizable.
► As a European company, “Bending Spoon” adheres to the General Data Protection Regulation in terms of data protection, but it stores the images on its own servers.
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