Artist uses AI to show what the world’s richest men would look like if they were poor
An artist has used artificial intelligence to create images of what the world’s richest people would look like without their money.
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Muskesh Ambani, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have all been re-imagined as ‘slumdog billionaires.’
Indian artist Gokul Pillai used the AI-program Midjourney to create the eye-opening portraits and made some minor changes using photoshop.
He also said the images took about two days to create, after taking inspiration from the Hollywood movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.
He told the Daily Mail: ‘It was very coincidental. The movie is set in the slums of India and I wanted to recreate something based on that.
‘The word ‘millionaire’ in the movie title and juxtapositioning it with actual billionaires, that’s how it started.’
Pillai posted the AI-generated images on Friday asking: ‘Did I miss to include anyone in the list?’
The images have since gone viral creating a social media storm with one viewer commenting, ‘This is epic.’
Pillai, who resides in Mysore, India, and has more than 36,000 followers on his Instagram said that he was ‘completely overwhelmed with the response.’
He said: ‘I knew it would be funny and few might find it hilarious too. But the response I received was unprecedented! … so happy.’
When asked which AI image was the most popular, he said, ‘Probably Bill Gates. It’s hard to say.
But added, that Mukesh Ambani, according to the feedback he received, ‘looked the poorest!’
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