What would you look like if you were born in the 1960s, the Renaissance, or even prehistory? On TikTok and Twitter, an artificial intelligence that allows selfies to travel through time has been a great success among Internet users.
The system, called “AI Time Machine,” was made available by MyHeritage, a company specializing in genealogy. And social media has taken over: As of this writing, videos with the hashtag #AITimeMachine have been viewed more than 31 million times on TikTok.
For the AI to work, you need to send him about twenty different selfies (frontal, profile, and multiplying facial expressions) and then create a MyHeritage account. Users have used it to imagine themselves in different times and with different styles: Rome or ancient Greece, Vikings, Aztecs, like a portrait by Rembrandt…
Many have also used this AI to compare themselves to old photos of their grandparents or recent ancestors.
This isn’t the first AI-assisted system that MyHeritage has made available. The Deep Nostalgia tools, which allow you to animate old family photos in 3D, and Deep Story, which allows you to talk, have already aroused a lot of reactions.
Your selfies are saved by Astria
Like these previous systems, AI Time Machine was not directly developed by MyHeritage. The site actually uses the image creation system developed by Astria, which itself is based on AI. stable propagation, as specified by MyHeritage on its dedicated page. Tech&Co had already experimented with these two systems in this article.
Key difference: MyHeritage’s AI Time Machine is free for the first time, while Astria is $5. But the choice of creations is more limited than in Astria, with predefined styles.
According to Astria’s terms of use, the images created can be used by their owner whenever they want, including for commercial purposes. But in exchange, Astria gets to keep her initial selfies to train her next AIs. “You authorize us to use your photos to (…) develop and improve our technologies, products and services related to artificial intelligence,” explains the company in your website
MyHeritage also stores your photos, which you can view in your personal space. Contacted by Tech&Co, MyHeritage ensures that these photos are only “hosted” by the site, that they are processed on MyHeritage’s servers, can be deleted at any time, and are not shared with third parties.
Source: BFM TV
