A new AI-powered trend is popping up all over social media: people sharing cartoonish, caricatured versions of themselves and their work lives. These images generated with ChatGPT exaggerate features and put individuals in imaginative work or personal situations-from reporters in busy newsrooms to creators surrounded by microphones and laptops. The visuals try to capture not only what someone looks like but also a sense of their personality.
What is the ChatGPT caricature trend?
The user needs to upload a personal photo on OpenAI's platform and ask ChatGPT to create a caricature based on the person's chat history and professional context. The result is much more cartoonish rather than a hyperrealistic portrait, with exaggerated faces and dramatic body language.
Backgrounds are liable to reflect the user's everyday environment or interests. You'll often see books, screens, desks, studios, or creative tools-whatever the AI infers from prior interactions.
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What makes this trend different?
Earlier trends of AI portrait creation relied heavily on using photos. With this approach, a whole deeper layer of personalised context is added. Besides the picture being uploaded, the system weighs patterns from conversations, topics, tone of voice, and interests in building the scene to mirror how AI fathoms different facets of users' lives.
This mix of visual cues and context also serves to create a more personal and relatable output that is easy for people to connect with and share.
How to create your own AI workplace caricature
First, to create one, you would log in to your existing OpenAI account, as this will enable the system to gain access to your existing context. An image with a clear face, preferably with proper lighting, is preferred.
You can then upload your image and provide a prompt for a caricature of your liking, possibly inspired by your workspace and everyday life. The level of detail here will depend on your desired level of specificity.
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What is the prompt to create ChatGPT caricature?
Here's the prompt to create your ChatGPT caricature:
{Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me}
Once the image is created, the prompt can be adjusted, and the process can be tried again, if necessary. Once the image is satisfactory, it can be downloaded and shared online
Thus, with the increment of this trend, AI-generated caricatures are emerging as a new form of expressing work and personality technologically.
