AI 'resurrects' dead stars: Eerie portraits show what Diana, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, Janis Joplin and Freddie Mercury would look like if they were alive today

DM ^ | 9/21/22 | Christopher Carbone

[week 71]

A photographer used artificial intelligence to bring stars who left us too soon back to life - creating eerie portraits of Princess Diana, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Freddie Mercury and others.

The haunting and realistic images are the work of Alper Yesiltas, a photographer based in Turkey who created the portraits for a project titled 'As If Nothing Happened.'

He used artificial intelligence photo enhancer software and photo editing programs to create the pictures.

[Chickensoup]

Jackson would have not looked like that because of all the work he had done on his face.

[Billthedrill]

Huh. Wonder what Keith Richards would look like if he were still alive...

[21twelve]

I tried guessing who they were. Got some of them right.

I never would have guessed the Michael Jackson one. It was interesting to see a normal and happy Michael Jackson. Too bad that art doesn’t always imitate life.

[week 71]

I figure they fed AI pictures of him from when he was in the Jackson Five singing ABC

[SaveFerris]

It worked on Paul Walker at the end of an as-yet unfinished Fast and Furious movie 🎥.

That’s not Paul Walker at the end - Beach scene and going forward; that’s his brother.

Kinda scary, really.

Next thing you’ll have a green screen where the President’s hand passes through a microphone muffler.

[Michael.SF.]

If Freddie Mercury were alive today, he would be dead by now

[ought-six]

Those are pretty interesting.

[week 71]

@ 22 - lol! Well, it will be interesting to see AI’s version in about 25 years - grin

[RatRipper]

Rapid speed slows time according to the theory of relativity. Works for me.

[hardspunned]

Hendrix looks a lot like Maxine Waters to me.

[Boogieman]

The Kurt Cobain one is obviously inaccurate since he would have a large chunk of his face missing if he were still alive today.

[Michael.SF.]

agree, along with Blind Faith. Commonality: Steve Winwood, also under appreciated.

[week 71]

@ 30 - or Jimmy Frederick Douglas Hendrix

[Stosh]

What they really needed to do was get a picture of Keith Richards from, say, the “12 x 5” days, and use that to project a prediction of what he would look like today - that would be a real test of their AI.

[Michael.SF.]

LOL

[KevinB]

Sad to say, but Joplin was talented because of her drug use and alcoholism.

[FatherofFive]

Jackson would have not looked like that because of all the work he had done on his face.

Yeah, I laughed at that one. Wasn’t his nose falling off?

[Chickensoup]

which means his later pics when used were horrorshow

[KevinB]

I had a beer with Dave Mason in a bar on St. Thomas back in 1989. That was pretty cool.

[mykroar]

Did he do AOC?