Watch The Rock being turned into unrecognizable abstract art as viral ChatGPT trend goes wrong

• A Reddit user recreated an image of The Rock 101 times with ChatGPT
• What started as a bad recreation ended up as abstract art
• The trend is now facing some backlash due to the energy wasted by creating 101 images in a short space of time

There's yet another new viral ChatGPT image generation trend, and this one might be the most pointless but also the most hilarious yet – especially when AI gets things horribly wrong.

You may have seen the new "Create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing" prompt on social media over the last few days, where ChatGPT tries to recreate an image, often making subtle changes that just look a little weird.

One Reddit user took the ChatGPT trend to a whole new level by transforming an image of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, arguably one of the most famous people on the planet, into some weird form of abstract art that would have Picasso spinning in his grave.

How did they do it? By asking ChatGPT to recreate the image 101 times, each time using the newly generated AI creation as the starting point – you can watch the entire process in the Reddit video linked below.

I tried the "Create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing" 101 times, but with Dwayne Johnson