Wagner James Au / New World Notes

So ChatGPT is highly problematic for many multiple reasons, the very least of which being it still can't summarize my book accurately, but as is often the case, the Second Life community has leveraged it for pretty amazing results. Specifically, turning their SL avatar into a RL social media selfie. (As above, by Stephy Renee.)

Here's how to do it on ChatGPT:

• Pull up prompt window
• Upload avatar photo
• Prompt: Create an image that looks like a selfie taken with an iPhone. There should be no clear subject or specific composition, just a casual, unintentional snapshot. The image should be slightly blurry and lit evenly by streetlights. The aspect ratio should be 9:16. It must not look AI-generated, but rather like it was taken by a real person.

The results are fairly viral all over Facebook (and a bit on Instagram). Here's a couple other favorites:

I love how Godiva Varela's photos are based on the default pre-mesh avatar, but the real life photo comes out so believably.

Gotta love Axl adding his friends in the background!

Share your own favorites in Comments! There's a whole college thesis to be written about replacing one's real life identity with their SL avatar but then making that their social selfie. But hey, it's Summer.

Oh, and please tell me if you know who got this meme going a few weeks ago!