My Life (So Far) According to AI
Looking Backwards at Ever-Decreasing Intervals of Time
Most of these images don’t look much like me/my family at all, but it’s an interesting exercise or “trip down memory lane” all the same.
Prompt: “a white family in fort bragg california in 1958: 24 year old father, 20 year old mother, one year old boy, and a baby boy”
Image not used due to size limitation of post; plus, somehow AI added an uncle and a cousin into the picture (I was the baby boy)
Prompt: “A four-year-old white boy in Eureka, California in 1962”
Prompt: “An eight-year-old white boy with dark brown hair riding a red Schwinn bicycle in San Jose, California in 1966”
Prompt: “A 10-year-old white boy with dark brown hair in San Andreas, California in 1968”
Prompt: “A 15-year-old white boy with dark brown hair playing football in Mokelumne Hill, California in 1973”
Prompt: “A 20-year-old white boy with dark brown hair playing a beige stratocaster guitar in a closet in brooklyn, new york in 1978”
(I inadvertently left “boy” in the prompt, but it turned out okay)
Prompt: “A 23-year-old white man with dark brown hair in helena, montana in 1981”
Prompt: “A 24-year-old white man with dark brown hair and his blonde 20-year-old wife in angels camp, california in 1982”
Prompt: “A 26-year-old white man with dark brown hair and his blonde 22-year-old wife and one-year-old son in anchorage, alaska in 1984”
Prompt: “A 29-year-old white man with dark brown hair and his blonde 25-year-old wife and four-year-old son in bethany, oklahoma in 1987”
Image not used due to size limitation of post; plus, the people looked nothing like us
Prompt: “A 33-year-old white man with dark brown hair and his blonde 29-year-old wife, eight-year-old son, and one-year-old son in jenny lind, california in 1991”
Image not used due to size limitation of post; plus, the wife/mother was not added for some reason
Prompt: “A 39-year-old white man with dark brown hair and his blonde 35-year-old wife, 14-year-old son, and seven-year-old son in brookfield, wisconsin in 1997”
Image not used due to size limitation of post; plus, none of the pictures looked anything like any of us
Prompt: “A 42-year-old white man with dark brown hair and his blonde 38-year-old wife, 17-year-old son, and 10-year-old son in Couer d'Alene, Idaho in 2000”
Where’s my facial hair?; the only person who looks somewhat like himself is Kelvin, the 17-year-old
Prompt: “A 46-year-old white man with greying hair in Piedmont, Missouri in 2004”
Hmmm…I wasn’t that gray yet; and I didn’t have a beard yet.
Prompt: “A 48-year-old white man and his blonde 44-year-old wife, 23-year-old son, and 16-year-old son in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin in 2006”
Image not used due to size limitation of post; also, none of the pictures looked anything like any of us
Prompt: “A 54-year-old white man and his blonde 50-year-old wife and 22-year-old son in Monterey, California in 2012”
This image looks very little like any of us, but it gives a decent impression of Monterey
Prompt: “A 66-year-old white man on a playground at an after-school program with 7-year-old kids in Monterey, California in 2024”
And so it goes.
