1980s AI photo trend: Bumrah, Sooryavanshi get hilarious makeovers
The portraits, featured in a video shared by the BCCI, showed the players in classic 1980s looks, complete with bell-bottom jeans, big sunglasses and retro hairstyles. Two days before the series, the Indian players gathered at their hotel for a photo session. But before it began, they found a table filled with AI-generated pictures of themselves.
Social media has rediscovered the 1980s, courtesy of AI-generated portraits transforming modern faces into vintage looks. The latest twist to this trend has been spotted on the Indian cricket team, just before their T20I series against Afghanistan in Delhi.
Two days prior to the series kick-off, the Indian players gathered at their hotel for a photo session. However, they stumbled upon a table filled with AI-generated portraits of themselves dressed in classic 1980s attire. Featured in a video shared by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the portraits portrayed the players in bell-bottom jeans, oversized sunglasses, and retro hairstyles.
Axar Patel and Abhishek Sharma were among the first to pick up the portraits and break into laughter upon seeing their new avatars. Jasprit Bumrah, another member of the team, also joined in the fun. Other players like Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma, and Shivam Dube examined the retro pictures and appeared amused by their 1980s transformations.
Ishan Kishan, who recently led East Zone to victory in the Duleep Trophy, fully embraced the retro look. He displayed his AI-generated picture, sang, and posed for the camera as his teammates enjoyed the light-hearted moment. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yash Thakur, and Ravi Bishnoi also couldn't help but smile when they witnessed their 1980s avatars.
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