Over the last 48 hours, there has been a worldwide craze where people resort to AI to create theirselves in a box as a miniature character.  I have seen some pretty accurate ones, some bizarre ones and a few that have made me chuckle (One of my friends is a Madonna fan, but AI thought he meant Maradona).

I could do that, but that would be very predictable and, 2 days in any trend, a bit boring.  My accessories would inevitably be a laptop, glass of wine and my headphones.  Meh, I’m sure you will agree.

Besides the BBC think that there are some concerns with environmental impact.  Mainly because the process is quite involved https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg690e9eno

So I did something a little different:  Instead of expecting ChatGPT to do everything for me, I thought I would ease the burden a bit.

The first image (above) was taken about 3 years ago at one of my BNI meetings.  I was in great shape after running a marathon and jokingly bought a cape and mask to reflect my online superhero persona.  So half the work has been done already. 

So I fired up my faithful ChatGPT (I should add that I use this strictly for research, my posts are still my own hand!).  Then I merely uploaded the photo and asked it to make me into a Pop Funko character.  I have a couple of these figurines already and I just find them way cooler than kit dolls.  And they still come in a box.

The process did take a few minutes and I did have a refresh at one point, but here is the finished result that I can use to reflect my business.  Not bad for about 10 minutes work!

As an added bonus, I can actually take this design and get it made into a Pop figurine https://funko.com/pop-yourself.html

I would love to know your thoughts in the comments and see your efforts, if you haven’t already shown it on social media.