The latest AI image fad reverses the popular use of ChatGPT to update old photos. Now, people are showing off how they turn current photos into oil paintings reminiscent of those produced during the Renaissance. A recent popular Reddit thread demonstrated with a photograph of a man lying in bed that ChatGPT made into a painting that looks a lot like a depiction of a martyr you might see on the wall of a lesser Borgia.
AI is far more likely to take an old headshot and 'restore' it by making a headshot of someone who might be the cousin of the person in the original photo. However, thanks to tips shared by others on Reddit and Instagram on how to make it work properly, I cobbled together a prompt that does a pretty good job of turning a modern photo into something that approximates the work of one of the masters.
