Over latest weeks, a peculiar phenomenon has taken maintain of an odd nook of The Web. Again in April, a content material creator referred to as @demonflyingfox uploaded an AI-generated video onto YouTube which showcased Harry Potter characters as stunning but considerably menacing fashions, the sort that will normally be employed by high-fashion model Balenciaga.
After shortly hitting the viral stratosphere, amassing over 7 million views, the clip sparked a startling pattern which noticed different characters from numerous franchises obtain an identical AI-generated remedy, courtesy of programmes akin to ChatGPT, Midjourney, ElevenLabs, and D-ID.
Thus far, we have seen exhibits akin to Breaking Unhealthy, Household Man, Star Wars and The Lord Of The Rings go underneath the digital knife. Now, we have even seen a clip displaying Balenciaga-fied rockstars, made by web axe-slinger Bradley Corridor, and it is severely given us the creeps.
Kicking off the video is a fantastically flame-haired ‘Dave Mustaine’, who mutters “peace sells however who’s shopping for? Not me, I am shopping for Balenciaga” between a pair of ultra-pouty, taut lips. Though the Megadeth frontman deep-fake definitely appears enchanting, he does not actually look all that a lot completely different to his youthful self.
Elsewhere, we see Black Sabbath’s ‘Tony Iommi’, dripping in jewels, smouldering like a fairy-tale king from one other world.
There’s additionally a unusually inaccurate depiction of Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, who appears extra like a personality from The Rocky Horror Image Present, with little or no hair on his head.
Our favorite of the lot, although, must be the ‘Ozzy Osbourne’ mannequin, who, whereas styled in a florescent, yellow, bejewelled jacket and top-hat, with eyes hollowed out in charcoal eyeshadow, declares in a swaggering tone: “Overlook the Loopy Practice, I am boarding the primary practice to vogue metropolis, subsequent cease Balenciaga, child!”.
On the finish, ‘James Hetfield’ seems in a futuristic steel swimsuit, and says: “Nothing else issues, apart from my intensive assortment of Balenciaga attire. Yeah yeah!”. Whereas we’re fairly sure that Metallica’s Nothing Else Issues wasn’t concerning the frontman’s love of high-fashion, it is hilarious all the identical.
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