People are Using ChatGPT to Roast Their Instagram Profiles

People are turning to ChatGPT to rate their Instagram profiles but asking the AI chatbot to be as mean as possible.

Instagram is a highly curated space where people carefully select what they want to share with the wider world. But a new trend sees photographers and everyday users alike seemingly enjoying having their profiles roasted by ChatGPT.

One photographer in Hawaii, Kerstin Jenkins, fed a screenshot of her ocean-themed Instagram profile into ChatGPT. First, Jenkins asks the bot: “What’s your first impression of my Insta feed?”

ChatGPT gives a diplomatic, sanguine response. But then Jenkins says: “Be mean” and gets the following reply.

“If I had to be critical, I’d say your feed might come across as trying too hard to be an ‘ocean influencer.’ The underwater shots are cool, but they start to feel a bit repetitive, almost like you’re trying to prove how adventurous you are. The mix of content also seems a bit disjointed — one moment you’re deep-diving with sharks the next you’re at a wedding or posing in a cowboy hat. It feels like you’re trying to juggle too many identities at once without fully committing to any of them. Maybe streamline the theme a bit more to avoid it looking like a mishmash of random experiences.”

The fun exercise is all thanks to ChatGPT’s machine-learning abilities to read and recognize images. Large-language models can have different personalities and asking it to be mean triggers a more combative side of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Last year, PetaPixel reported on famed photographer Trey Ratcliff who created a photo critique GPT which recreates Ratcliff giving photo feedback.

Ratcliff said it was trained on over 5,000 of his blog entries and his published books on photography.

“I’ve also kind of trained it on my sense of humor, so I hope you are entertained while your photo is getting critiqued,” Ratcliff said at the time.

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