When it came to providing my job title, my first attempt was declined because I included BBC News and was told this violated content policy – I think because currently the BBC does not allow ChatGPT to use its output.
Once you do get an image you’re likely to want to tweak it further; my first attempt was too cartoon-like.
The following, more realistic version made me look considerably older than I am, then too child-like, and I gave up in the end trying to get it to use my actual eye-colour, which kept defaulting back to blue (mine are a blend of hazel and green).
It took a couple of minutes to generate each version and overall the process was slower than I would have liked, potentially because of its popularity.
It did start to feel like a lot of work for a passing trend, and it isn’t perfect – my doll is expanding out far beneath the supposed packaging.
But more importantly, somewhere in a data centre some hot computer servers were toiling away to make Action Figure Zoe.
They almost certainly could have been put to work on worthier causes.
