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GPT-4o draws itself as a consistent type of guy
When asked to draw itself as a person, the ChatGPT Create Image feature introduced on March 25, 2025, consistently portrays itself as a white male in his 20s with brown hair, often sporting facial hair and glasses.
Of the six samples below, the manga one is the furthest away from the original portrait, but if you squint, it could be a young version of the photorealistic men above. Mode collapse is an ancient machine learning phenomenon relevant for image generation in particular, but I do not recall such phenomena being discussed when Stable Diffusion or DALL-E were cool. The elderly version could be a relative of the default self-image, but I would guess the old man had lighter hair back in the day.
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