Fancy Salads Don’t want to spend time with other humans, but still want to make it look like you’re hanging out with your pals IRL? Boy, do we have just the thing. A new app called Hotshot makes use of the power of AI to generate fake photos of you and your pals — whether they agreed to the arrangement or not. “Imagine if Midjourney knew what your friends looked like… Introducing Hotshot!” tweeted one of the app’s cofounders Aakash Sastry. “Make photos with ANYONE IN YOUR CONTACTS doing ANYTHING.” In a demonstration, Sastry shared some Hotspot-generated photos of himself and his cofounder together eating salads in a fancy restaurant. The results arguably leave a lot to be desired. The photos fall squarely in the uncanny valley, making both their faces appear like cartoonish AI interpolations. “Making memes of your friends,” reads the company’s page on the app store, “has never been easier.” 1/ Imagine if Midjourney knew what your friends looked like… Introducing Hotshot! Make photos with ANYONE IN YOUR CONTACTS doing ANYTHING Here’s pics of me and my co-founder John eating a salad + a video of me making them on Hotshot Download, it’s free:… pic.twitter.com/rlrRgkPY2B — Aakash (@aakashsastry) May 3, 2023 Involuntary Participation Of course, while we love goofy photos of our friends as much as the next guy, something about using an AI app to create images of you and your friends hanging out together — rather than just hanging out with them in real life…New AI Service Makes Fake Photos of You Hanging Out With Your Friends, Laughing and Having a Great Time