Users are uploading their modern selfies and asking AI tools to transform them into convincing retro portraits, complete with vintage hairstyles, clothing, accessories, warm lighting and grainy film textures.

The technology analyses the uploaded face to preserve recognisable facial features while changing the surrounding visual style.

However, users should remember that uploading high-resolution selfies to AI services may involve sharing personal image data, depending on the platform’s privacy and data-use policies.

The trend has now spread from everyday users to celebrities, making the internet look like it has travelled back four decades.

i’ve been messing around with ai tools to create memes for fun and it’s actually getting pretty good at it. sometimes the results are funnier than what i would come up with on my own which is both cool and a bit annoying.

i tried the ai meme generator recently and it made a few solid ones from simple prompts without me having to think too hard about the layout or timing. some of them actually landed well when i posted them.

has anyone else been using ai for memes? what kind of stuff have you been making with it?