With the continuous development of artificial intelligence technology, using related tools for creation has become a popular trend. AI-generated images can even confuse real photos, making it difficult for people to tell whether they’re seeing a real photo or a fake one. An Indian artist has used artificial intelligence to generate fictional photos of the world’s rich and poor, including Elon Musk and Bill Gates. Once released, it caused a sensation on the Internet and was very popular among netizens. An Indian artist named Gokul Pillai used Midjourney, a text-to-image tool, with light touch-ups to generate a photo of 7 rich people in the world becoming poor in 2 days.

The rich people he “transformed” include former US President Trump (Donald Trump), the world’s richest man, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Asia’s richest man Ambani (Mukesh) Ambani, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, “stock god” Buffett (Warren Buffett) and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. These AI-generated maps are set against what appear to be slums. The rich in suits and ties have become the poor in old and dirty clothes. Among them, Gates didn’t even wear a shirt, his hair was messy, and he had a big belly, forming a contrast. It has been liked by tens of thousands of netizens.

Gokul Pillai revealed that it was inspired by the British movie “Slumdog Millionaire” (Slumdog Millionaire), which is set as a story of an Indian youth from a slum who used his own background to pass a game quiz show but was suspected of cheating. With US$377 million (approximately HK$2.96 billion), it swept the Academy Awards including “Best Picture” and “Best Director”, and was one of the most successful films in 2008. After his work was released on social platforms, it caused an uproar. A large number of netizens praised his painting style, “it can satisfy everyone’s hatred of the rich”, “hate the rich and hate the poor”, “basically wear beggar clothes and wear them on the poor”. Take food. However, many netizens believe that, apart from the rich clothes, the facial expressions have not changed much. “Musk still looks rich”, “Maybe it’s more realistic to let them go bald”, “Zuckerberg should be more depraved”, “Buffett’s feeling doesn’t seem to be a big violation”. At the same time, some netizens suggested that Gokul Pillai continue to make AI maps of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, and Indian billionaire Gautam Adani becoming poor. In fact, this is not the first time that Midjourney’s generated maps have caused heated discussions. Before Trump appeared in court for the “hush money incident”, an AI-generated map of Trump being chased by the police was leaked online. Many people have been misled as a result. There was an uproar. In addition, not long ago, Pope Francis (Pope Francis) wore a down jacket and sunglasses, and the trendy image generated by AI also caused a sensation.