When one thinks about Mark Zuckerberg and fashion, one’s imagination gets limited to basics like crew neck T-shirts in neutral colours and simple trousers. However, thanks to artificial intelligence-backed tools, people have generated pictures that show how the Meta CEO would look on the runways of popular brands.
People shared AI-generated images that envisioned Zuckerberg out of his normcore basics and in fashionable clothes by brands like Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga and Vivienne Westwood.
Mark Zuckerberg doing rounds on the runway, pure fashionista.
💬Prompt in alt https://t.co/GQB0nXRzHs pic.twitter.com/xYE3zkaGAm
— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam) March 29, 2023
Mark Zuckerberg for @LouisVuitton pic.twitter.com/uxF2lf3ind
— Andrew Kean Gao (@itsandrewgao) March 29, 2023
Commercial fishing gear so hot right now. pic.twitter.com/KCCHoQyAS0
— BowTiedHalibut (@bowtiedhalibut) March 29, 2023
I’m a little late to this party… but here’s an action shot from the Vivienne Westwood show 😎 pic.twitter.com/InLaViJ5pf
— Business Maven💄 (@BusinessMaven1) March 30, 2023
Commenting on one such picture, a Twitter user wrote, “ I don’t know why these pics make me laugh so much! At least AI can be used to brighten our day with some entertainment..”.
People also joked about the internet lore of Zuckerberg’s robot-like mannerisms. A Twitter user commented, “Could you try one with him showing human emotion? I bet that’ll trip up all existing AI.” Another person said, “There will never be an AI advanced enough to make Zuck look like a real human being”.
These pictures are coming days after an AI-generated image of Pope Francis in a Balenciaga-style swaggy puffer jacket went viral. This hyper-realistic image, which prompted several memes, was made using Midjourney, an AI program that lets one create images from text prompts.
In January, Malik Afegbua, a Nigerian filmmaker, used AI to create images that showed elderly people in fashionable clothes. This set of images, titled ‘Fashion Show For Seniors’, even got the attention of the Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth Carter, who commented on one of the Instagram posts.