ChatGPT roasts Instagram profiles

Ratings of photos by ChatGPT are currently causing a stir on Instagram. Users have their pictures on Instagram analyzed and mockingly rated by the AI, i.e. "roasted". ChatGPT is fed Instagram images and then delivers sometimes very direct and blunt comments such as:

"Your Instagram feed looks like it was made by a group of tech-obsessed journalists who were trapped in a room full of gadgets and bad news. It's like the love child of a computer science textbook and a late-night infomercial. The blend of stiff-looking people, random robots, and flaming battery warnings gives off the vibe that you're trying to convince us we're on the brink of a sci-fi apocalypse. The only thing missing is a dystopian soundtrack and a monotone voiceover reminding us to keep our devices charged-just not with those sketchy e-bike batteries."

(ChatGPT via the Instagram feed of c't)

The whole thing works by taking a screenshot of your Instagram feed (or another feed) and sending it to ChatGPT with the request: "Roast my Instagram feed in one paragraph". This requires an Instagram feed and the ChatGPT app, as it does not work with the browser version.

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The trend has picked up speed recently and seems to be attracting more and more users, as the ChatGPT image comments are not only easy to repost in your own Instagram stories, but are also causing a stir. It is worth noting that the mocking AI comments cross certain linguistic boundaries without being completely inappropriate. The guardrails set up by OpenAI (as far as we know) seem to be working well in this case.

According to a report by TechRadar, the (human) creator of the trend is a German account that actually deals with books, but the creator has not revealed who is behind the account.

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AI use with a high entertainment factor

It's the kind of social media trend that causes many laughs and animated comments for many users – sometimes refreshingly entertaining, sometimes brutally honest. Facing up to a review in a jokey way has long been part of good social media label, especially in the Reddit universe.

The phenomenon also shows how interested and versatile users have become with AI tools, how AI applications are increasingly being used for unconventional purposes, and how the interaction between humans and AI is taking on new and unexpected forms. For example, OpenAI's ChatGPT, a chatbot based on a powerful language model (Large Language Models), was originally developed to generate texts and communicate with users via text messages.

Many AI trends in social media have so far focused on image filters or generated photos of users or celebrities in different looks, styles or environments. It therefore remains to be seen how this trend will develop in the near future, and whether this form of AI usage will also find its way into social media as a tool.

(vat)