Slumdog billionaires: Digital artist uses AI to reimagine world’s richest in slum-like environment


Pillai created a series of portraits of billionaires (clockwise from left) Donald Trump, Mukesh Ambani and Elon Musk, transforming their privileged lives into residents living in slums. — Photos: GOKUL PILLAI/Instagram/The Straits Times/ANN

A digital artist has created waves on social media by using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to portray how the world’s wealthiest people would look like if they were poor.

Using an AI programme called Midjourney, India-based Gokul Pillai created a series of portraits of these billionaires, transforming their privileged lives into slum dwellers.

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