1980s AI photo trend: Bumrah, Sooryavanshi get hilarious makeovers
Indian cricket players participated in a viral social media trend using AI to generate 1980s-style vintage portraits of themselves. The lighthearted moment occurred ahead of the T20I series against Afghanistan in Delhi.
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Demonstrates the mainstream cultural adoption of generative AI for entertainment and social media engagement.
NEW DELHI: Social media has found a fun new way to bring the 1980s back, with AI turning modern-day pictures into vintage portraits. The trend has now reached the Indian cricket team, with several players enjoying a hilarious surprise ahead of their T20I series against Afghanistan in Delhi.Axar, Abhishek and Bumrah join the funTwo 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.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.India allrounder Axar Patel and Abhishek Sharma picked up the portraits and burst out laughing as they showed them to their teammates.
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