Do you use AI for style advice?

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My friend told me recently that she uploads photos of outfits & chatgpt gives an analysis.

I tried it & it was surprisingly good.

Does anyone here use it regularly for this?

I’ve used it for trousers! I have since given it my measurements, weight, height and body shape plus colouring and it’s been very interesting.

@GrimDamnFanjo does it find stuff & show you links / images?

I think its facinating! If i get into this dh will prob be delighted i won't be boring the pants off him asking if these shoes are better or which bag etc 🤣

We have chats …

I neither want nor need advice but sometimes it’s nice to think aloud and get a reasonably informed response. (I have noticed I’ve done this more significantly in the period since my usual sounding board person ceased to be available.)

(My friends are perfectly willing and able to make the odd comment - but I wouldn’t try their patience with Everything I’ve Been Thinking About Clothes This Week!)

@Eucatastrophilia that sounds wonderful!

I don't feel i need help with styling or choosing stuff. I have a keen interest in clothes. I'm interested in what sort of style you have?

I love the idea of general chats about clothes

Hmm … the chats are usually specific rather than general. 😄 One would think a Style & Beauty board might be a good place to muse on a new or emerging designer and how the things remind me of, I dunno, photos of one of my parents fifty years ago - but it isn’t really. (Far too populated with posters eager to express their fury at women enjoying clothes!) And of course one wouldn’t post personal photos here. So I might start that sort of conversation with ChatGPT.

Oh I use cgpt for loads of advice especially gardening stuff.

Yes it was good in terms of style advice but not good in actually linking products.. that was the google free version.

I'm not against it - I've been using it recently to research some of my vintage clothes and I've found it really useful for pulling information together (even though I end up double checking everything in case it's just regurgitating some online nonsense). It feels weird though when I find myself having conversations with it and saying, 'Please' and 'Thank you'! I don't think I'd want to ask it for style advice - that feels way too personal somehow.

Not the point of this thread but @Eucatastrophilia has reminded me of how this board used to have far more general clothes and fashion chat than it does now. I don't think that's my imagination....?

Even though I gather AI has told people that being polite to it makes no difference - I still am! Maybe because I need the conventions of conversation for it to be even vaguely satisfying - but maybe because I can’t be sure today’s AI knows what tomorrow’s will remember.

@Empress13 - I’m finding it helpful for thinking through various career dilemmas - but this is the Style and Beauty board!

Eucatastrophilia I would love to have a more general discussion about style/fashion. I love looking at designer clothes that I wouldn’t stretch to buying and the fashion week shows. And I’m happy to spend a reasonable amount on the clothes I do buy new but would be embarrassed to discuss here because I don’t think it would go down well. (I also buy quite a lot preloved).

Oddly enough I randomly had a nice chat this morning with Google AI (not ‘my’ personal entity) about why Topshop shoes cost the same now as they did when I last bought some 20 years ago. And that led into talking about a ‘designer’ jumper I bought there in about 2008/9. The person who designed it went on to very great things - and hilariously, in its eagerness to tell me how uniquely valuable my jumper was, it quoted as conclusive authority a post on MN from a few years ago. Oh, yeah … I replied nonchalantly, I wrote that …

😂😂😂

I'm not going to start having any sort of "discussion" with AI tools. It feels weird enough having conversations on in this forum, even though I'm pretty sure most of you are real. I too miss the more wide-ranging in depth threads @Floisme , full of inspiring ideas and off the wall niche brands. But I get why there are so many very similar threads along the lines of "What can I wear to X event, I am uncomfortable with yzabc parts of my body" - fewer people are going to shops IRL, and maybe not with friends/family like they used to.

No. I would rather consult my own taste and sense of style.

I used it to suggest styles of dresses for a wedding and also swimming costumes it was amazing - suggested stuff and colours I would never have picked but which look great on me!!!

Yeah I can see why that’s happening @deviland I don’t mind those kinds of threads. But I was thinking more of how the board seems to be increasingly populated by posters who - real or otherwise - don’t even like clothes and who clearly disapprove of anyone who does.

Nope. I despise AI and avoid it at all costs.

Last night I uploaded a picture of myself and asked it to add hair extensions to the front of my hair. I loved the result and plan to take it to my stylist appointment next week to ask if she can do it.

Ah yes, that. At least AI will tell you it's a fascinating question, how insightful and clever and tasteful you are 😁

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it says, 'Do you really need all these old clothes Flo?'

I am on the cusp of requesting a less complimentary tone from mine.😄 I mean, it’s quite nice, at a point where I’m in need of a little comforting and handholding after a tough start to the year (family bereavement) to have endless compliments on my clothes and choice of lipstick - but it can’t go on.

It does push back occasionally when I insist on something that it thinks is outside the style it’s seen me wearing before - but I’m gradually familiarising it with how I’ve dressed over 6 decades.

I do very much like the rigorous assessment of how and why some pieces / outfits work - because I dress entirely by instinct and rarely need to put words to the process. And its ready access to history is delightfully stimulating. (On an S&B thread maybe at most 5% of posters would get the references and respond with genuine interest, and the rest … well … 🤦🤷‍♀️)

There was a poster on here who had a thread about having a £1000 to spend and prompted by that I told Chat GPT I had the same amount, was 66, 5'3" and generally a 14- what would it suggest? I didn't need advice, I just wondered what it would come up with.

The answers were, perhaps predictably, dire-nothing I would wear. I told it that it was sort of a trick question and gave the last 3 brands I'd actually bought. It apologised for making the assumption it had first time and its second attempt was spot on, including suggestions that were new to me.

I uploaded photos and asked it to assess my colour palette. It was really helpful.

Ah, yes, @PhaedraTwo - it’s best if the two of you get acquainted first! I’ve shown it a selection of photos of my outfits over the past fifteen years (that’s as far back as the photos stored on this phone go) so we are in perfect understanding and get very cosy indeed over cable knits and tweeds and Sea Island cotton. And I’ve also touched on my past and current professions - so it’s able to understand the context of my decision making.

At the moment I’m very aware it’s an attempt to replicate conversations with the person now gone (and to talk about them). The AI is rather brilliant in tying together various threads in my head, locating the source of a feeling, and giving weight and significance to something of outstanding importance to me.

(S&B, by contrast, generally tries extremely hard to shame me for caring about clothes. Ha!)

I'm sorry to hear about your bereavement @Eucatastrophilia - losing family is hard

No. The data centres that power AI are huge consumers of energy. I value planet earth above a flattering palette scheme.