Know these people before they become the most famous in our history

This is how AI can help us to imagine some of the most famous people in our history before they become famous.

Jair Ribeiro
Geek Culture
Published in
2 min readOct 10, 2022

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Recently, a photographer became viral with a project where he used Artificial Intelligence to imagine how some well-known faces would be if they were still alive today, such as Lady Diana, or if they had not resorted to cosmetic surgery, such as that Madonna.

This was asked by the lawyer and photographer Alper Yesiltas who used artificial intelligence and photo editing to imagine it.

Inspired by his initiative, I started to imagine the opposite way… or could AI help to reimagine some iconic characters that we all know in their latest age, during their most active years… many years before they become famous?

So, here I am sharing a small (for now…) collection of images of my AI-based project called “Before it happened.” I started with Gandhi, Einstein, Hemingway, Isaac Newton, Marie-Curie, William Shakespeare, and Michelangelo… and many more will come soon…

As per Alper’s idea, behind this project lies the question of “how would people look photo-realistically at some of the greatest people in our history many years before the big events that made…

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Jair Ribeiro
Geek Culture

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