A list compiled by Forbes placed entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Bill Gates in the top 10 of the richest people in the world. Their fortunes, if added together, would be worth 282.80 billion, with Musk owning 178.3 billion and Gates, 104.5 billion.
However, not even the rich are free from internet pranks and artist Gokul Pillai decided to imagine what these people would look like if they were poor.
Known by the username @withgokul, he used a platform called Midjourney, which is capable of creating different images using texts or phrases, operating in a similar way to OpenAI and DALL-E to create more “humble” versions for powerful tycoons.
Poor Billionaires: Artist Reimagines Personalities with the Help of AI
Accessing Midjourney, the artist asked the AI to show him what it would be like if a group of big names from the business world lived in a humble neighborhood, leading a much simpler lifestyle than their wealthy counterparts are accustomed to.
Several well-known names have been reimagined, such as Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and former US President Donald Trump. As well as, of course, other well-known figures.
Once he had completed the entire process, Gokul made sure to share the results on his Instagram account, titling the photo gallery as, “millionaires from the favela”. See below:
View this photo on InstagramA post shared by Gokul Pillai (@withgokul)
As for the images, they show Bill Gates shirtless, for example; Mark Zuckerberg looking like he has a bad credit rating; Jeff Bezos keeping his friendly face, but looking like a “neighborhood uncle”, among other wonderful pearls that the montage offers us.
The game was a success and Pillai already has more than 49 thousand followers on his social networks. On Instagram alone, he has posted more than 730 posts, many of them based on his work using artificial intelligence to imagine real multiverses.
But not everything is laughter and humor, as many people on social media also showed their indignation at the fact that poverty, in the images generated by @withgokul, is associated with the favela and dirt, and that these same billionaires could do more to help people in conditions similar to those in the images to have better living conditions.
Elon Musk’s fortune alone, for example, could end world hunger forever. Controversies aside, what did you think of Gokul’s work? Tell us in the comments!
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