It’s a ton of fun—and very bizarre!—to try to predict the future. No matter how smart you (think you) are, you can never consider all the possible variables and how they’ll interact with each other. The general hope is that artificial intelligence tools might be (a bit) better at guessing the future than human beings. In some cases, these models are powerfully accurate… though, other times, they are limited and wildly wrong.
Recently, people all over the internet have been comparing photos of what they look like now versus what ChatGPT thinks they’d look like aged up, based on their childhood photos. Our team at Bored Panda has compiled a list of these side-by-side prediction vs. reality pics to show you how eerily (in)accurate generative AI can sometimes be. Scroll down to look at the photos.
