Ahsan Mohsin Ikram tapped into the strangeness of artificial intelligence, using it to stage the kind of birthday gathering most of us could never dream of (we actually wouldn\u2019t want to).<\/p>\n
Taking to Instagram stories on Tuesday, the actor shared a set of AI-generated photos that showed him hanging out with a controversial mix of world leaders and Hollywood icons \u2014 from Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Tom Cruise and John Cena.<\/p>\n
Ikram paired each bizarre mashup with tongue-in-cheek captions. Standing alongside Trump and Putin, he wrote, \u201cSome friends came to wish me on my birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Spears, he cracked, \u201cHit me baby one more time also came to see me.\u201d He added a nod to the Kardashian-Jenner sisters with, \u201cKylie and Kim stole the show, though.\u201d<\/p>\n
A shot with Tom Cruise was paired with the line, \u201cSomeone showed up a little late.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Cena\u2019s infamous catchphrase inspired the quip, \u201cJohn Cena said you can\u2019t see me, but I could see him, and so can you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps the funniest post featured Trump, Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping jumping in the air behind him, captioned, \u201cPakistanis after signing Saudi defence agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
But beyond the humour, Ikram used the moment to make a point. In a separate story, he wrote, \u201cAI is funny but can be dangerous too. These satire posts were there to make all of you aware that not everything you see on the internet is true, and one should verify what is the truth and what is fake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lately, Instagram feeds have been flooded with similar experiments \u2014 from celebrities and influencers sharing AI-generated pictures of their younger selves to men digitally inserting themselves next to stars like Dua Lipa. While it\u2019s all fun and games and people are increasingly familiar with the \u2018miracles\u2019 of AI, it\u2019s also a little weird and, in some ways, unethical. After all, the public figures being used in these images never consented to being AI-generated for jokes. Add to that the broader concern that the unnecessary use of AI comes with a hidden cost \u2014 its environmental impact<\/a> \u2014 something most users rarely stop to consider.<\/p>\n By turning his own feed into an AI experiment, Ikram may have given fans both a laugh and a reminder that in a world flooded with synthetic images, a little scepticism goes a long way. And while his point about verifying information stands, here\u2019s hoping the trend of using AI for pure randomness finds a graceful exit sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahsan Mohsin Ikram tapped into the strangeness of artificial intelligence, using it to stage the kind of birthday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-166301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}