Artificial intelligence has generated eerie depictions of how it believes people will seem in the metaverse.
Craiyon AI, a well-known text-to-image system, generated multiple images of what humans could look like if they all joined the metaverse. Each individual has a fused augmented reality headset with their face.
Several tech companies, including Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, are investing billions of dollars to develop virtual worlds where people can shop, work, and be amused.
The visuals were initially made when The U.S. Sun sent these metaverse-related inquiries to the AI.
Similarly, a different AI produced weird photographs of the ‘last selfie ever shot,’ depicting apocalyptic scenes of humans in front of nuclear explosions, with rotting flesh and absolute destruction in the background.
The photographs show people with enormous AR headsets strapped to their faces, as well as a few others who appear odd.
In the majority of the photos, no other facial features, like lips or noses, are visible. Faces on their whole are integrated into the augmented reality headsets.
In another, the individual appears to be frowning, has no real hands, and is disturbingly green, as if from The Matrix.
Another image depicts a woman with long hair whose nose is pushed to the lower half of her face and whose face is deformed. She is positioned against a massive white orb background.
In a second photograph, the individual appears to be a full-fledged robot with a bright blue headset and a machine-like constellation nearby.
One artwork depicts a person positioned against a celestial background with his hands appearing to be chained in some way.
Zuckerberg has stated that he expects at least a billion people to spend considerable amounts of money in the metaverse, and his company hopes that users spend a great deal of time there so that it can profit from their commerce.
‘We hope to have around a billion people in the metaverse doing hundreds of dollars of commerce, each buying digital goods, digital content, different ways to express themselves,’ he told CNBC’s, Jim Cramer.
However, the tech giant’s efforts in the metaverse, which date back to its 2014 $2 billion acquisition of headgear manufacturer Oculus VR, have yet to be completely realized.
The entrepreneur stated, ‘I still believe it will take some time for the metaverse to reach the magnitude of several hundreds of millions or even billions of people, simply because things take time to develop.’
Meta has already spent $18 billion on its ideas for the metaverse, which have received mixed reviews from people.
A collection of photos from Horizon Worlds, which Meta has described as a predecessor to the metaverse, have been criticized by numerous gamers and social media users.
