The AI Gahuku app is an AI art generator that turns user-submitted photos into Renaissance-style paintings. It caused a full-on craze on social media with everyone excited to see the results. Take a look at some of the hilarious examples below!
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safe to say she’s now a renaissance painting pic.twitter.com/94tGYH4e6Q
— ᶠᵉʳᵍⁱᵉ (@lgbtsagelyn) April 1, 2020
AI generates canvas renaissance painting from your photos.#AI画伯https://t.co/bXNO2chmDj pic.twitter.com/Nm8joxmnrv
— Cutie (@veideveide) March 31, 2020
Benedict Cumberbatch as Renaissance painting; a thread pic.twitter.com/lc3tXxMYjs
— dra stranja (@bencwings) April 1, 2020
Okay, I’m hopping on the AI Gahaku bandwagon.
I think this one probably looks the most like me. pic.twitter.com/Y7KMJ19pSn
— Astra Crompton (@ulzaorith) April 2, 2020
While some recreations are spot on, others were not so lucky…
r u kidding me #AI画伯 pic.twitter.com/HpBSzx34ct
— Vira (@viradiego) April 1, 2020
what’s up w my nose tho pic.twitter.com/LIFxD7fu19
— kar (@donpenguinii) April 1, 2020
Been doing that ‘turn my photo into a renaissance painting’ on my family and I don’t think we expected this to be my sister’s?? pic.twitter.com/i93UGeHv5m
— Ell (@Ellis_Humphries) April 1, 2020
Oh no pic.twitter.com/AIOt9FkXco
— Aryan Chatterjee (@arcn0id) April 1, 2020
do not try the renaissance painting thing w/ a photo that has teeth pic.twitter.com/QQ65CrMXTr
— riley?! (@RileyZajonc) April 1, 2020
That renaissance app hates me pic.twitter.com/XOn6WfpmZ4
— Jesse (@Skinnty_) March 31, 2020
don’t mean to be rude, but what the hell did AI Gahaku do to me pic.twitter.com/79Nxz1VhHr
— Daniel Eales (@DanielEales) March 31, 2020
this AI thinks im a sister of the catholic cloth. well buddy , you’re not far off#AI画伯 pic.twitter.com/NrrrQiXFHl
— Anthony N. Petruzzi (@bubbalicious47) March 31, 2020
I put Gregg Wallace through the AI Gahaku website and the result is truly horrific pic.twitter.com/mLjSPHA9Nc
— Keir Shields (@keir_shields) April 4, 2020
…and there are complaints that the AI is lightening the skin of people of color. (A fact the developer acknowledges.)
can’t believe i was whitewashed like this #AI画伯 pic.twitter.com/197MWwmjTk
— zooz (@aquilics) April 1, 2020
WHO IS THIS WHITE WOMEN? AI GAHAKU HAS 24 HOURS TO RESPOND. pic.twitter.com/I7q0gWxQMj
— Camille Diane Sanks?☁️?? (@EvilSuccubus17) April 2, 2020
AI Gahaku painted my portrait 3 times over using 3 different styles. Not sure how I morphed into an old European man though. The last painting of me looks like one of the Popes pic.twitter.com/qD7SqZKTWk
— J U L E S ? (@GoldJulery) April 2, 2020