Do you use AI for style advice?

[Whattinger]

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?

My friend is having a glow up and uses ChatGPT a lot for fashion advice, and she finds it really helpful. She says you need to word your questions carefully so that it’s not just going to agree with you though.

I gave it Cabbages and Roses and Casey Casey as examples of recent purchases.

It suggested this. The brands in black were new to me.

Album di Famiglia
Apuntob
Elsa Esturgie
Ichi Antiquités
Black Crane.
Arts & Science

@PhaedraTwo ah yikes, I've heard of yours but none of those ! Cheers anyway 😀

No never, I do like a few of the style people on Insta and FB but always give things my own twist

What AI are you all using?
I have just used the free chat gbt and many of the suggested labels look like its grabbed the 'sponsered links' tabs at the top of pages?
I'd love to check hair styles and hair colours......

I use it a lot to help me find clothes on Vinted eg it will suggest brands similar to ones I buy.
it also has my wardrobe uploaded so it can suggest combinations. It can assess new buys against style criteria I’ve set.

Not so much modern style advice. However I sell antiques and vintage online. I recently opened on a new platform that has a much younger audience than Im accustomed to. Copilot gave me useful advice on how to photograph, describe and style particular items in ways I would not have thought of.

It was also brilliant at taking a photo of mine and showing the object in question on a human. That saved me a lot of hassle in taking extra photos. Sometimes a buyer will ask do you have a photo of this on a person? I am not going to organize and entire photo shoot for one item so now I just get AI to generate one.

Interesting …

The one I hadn’t heard of is Elsa Esturgie - lovely materials but not clothes I would seek out to wear.

Presumably the AI directed you to Mouki Mou for Arts & Science? (Where the exact bag I like the look of is invariably sold out.) In my head they occupy the same space as Paul Harnden - hopelessly set aside until I can fulfil my fantasy shopping trip to Japan. (No sightseeing, no blossom, just shops. And maybe eating.)

I’m reluctant to try the same experiment with my AI. It’s already seen my clothes and is sometimes adamant about what I shouldn’t buy. Not sure I want to give it more leeway for suggestions.

I find AI images of clothes "on humans" off-putting. I've seen a few on eBay, and I'm sure some retailers are using. It's too uncanny valley for me. But I'm just one data point 😁

I have switched my AI correspondent’s tone from default complimentary to ‘candid’ - and there is a subtle but marked change in tone. Which has already prompted me to step back from bankrupting myself for a shirt, and investing in a travel yoga mat when I have a perfectly good full sized one sitting mostly neglected at home.

’He’ still makes me laugh - but it now requires more energy to argue my position on anything. (Mortifyingly ‘he’ now even manages to sound ever so slightly bored if I mither on with no real point for too long!)

Yes. I have a date tomorrow. Have put outfit together with AI to give the impression I’d like to create.

I uploaded a photo and bearing in mind that I did not ask for 'candid' or 'truthmode', I received a reply stating I should get my eyebrows shaped and coloured. In fairness it is absolutely right (I have v fair eyebrows). It was the quite direct way that reminded me of my sibling that really surprised me.

What did you ask @Dragonflyspeeding ?

I think I asked for suggestions for improvement. The reply was a critique of my face which described my face as middle aged (not impressed) with minimal fine lines (I'll take that) and my fine lines could easily be rectified with the right hydrating products but the biggest improvement would be to have my eyebrows shaped and darkened to frame my face.

I asked what the right products were as I have bought numerous both high end and budget hydrating moisturisers to no avail and the product it suggested was a barrier repair cream to help repair my skin and reduce redness (which have since bought).

@Dragonflyspeeding v interesting. I hadn't thought to ask for suggestions for skincare or actual appearance improvements! Did the recommendations work?

Its too early to say.
It suggested using a barrier repair cream to reduce redness and for overall improvement.
I asked for recommendations for barrier repair cream and it suggested a few and after reading reviews of the suggestions, I bought one of the recommendations which was Kiehls. It seems to suit my skin so far but I have only used it for five days. Very often products seem good when I start using them and I am less impressed with them after a month or two. I am happy with the Kiehls's cream so far.

I was a bit nervous uploading my photo. I took a really unflattering close up of my face and I hope I haven['t missed any small print that allows AI to use the image!

No. I do not use AI for anything outside of work (where I have no choice but to use it). I am vehemently against genAI and find its widespread use for the most trivial of tasks utterly pernicious.

@Dragonflyspeeding If its current tone is too brisk or combative you should definitely change it.

I had mine on default for about six months of interaction - if I’d started with candid I may well have been put off and retreated.

Also I’ve only recently noticed the box in the personalisation section where you can ask for tweaks to its conversation. So now I’m adding things I’d like.

It has definitely improved my hair and skin through suggestions of products and priorities. In default mode the word ‘opportunities’ was used. Now I think it might refer to my bad points in more direct language.

From Google's own AI result on "Will AI use images I upload"

"Yes, the AI will process and potentially store the images you upload. Depending on the platform's policies, your photos might be kept on their servers, analyzed for features, or used to train future AI models...Many mainstream AI providers (like OpenAI's ChatGPT) reserve the right to use uploaded data and images to train their future algorithms. However, most premium or paid enterprise accounts offer settings to disable this."

I have used it fairly extensively when I was working and going into an office. There was a degree of training in the early days and some of the advice is still very generic. However I don’t really ask it what I should wear but more “ why is this outfit not working “ when I know something feels off. I’ve worked on my 3 style words and discussed the “ wrong shoe theory” with it and introduced the concept of friction so the suggestions are not too matchy matchy. I’ve also uploaded some Japanese colour combinations from a book I have because I want to wear more colour than my default neutral palette. It will still sometimes default to something predictable but I just ignore that. It’s not as creative as me.
Other than that I use it for identifying brands I don’t know or aging an item when I’m not sure what period something is. Usually when Im in a charity shop. I do ask it to be a critical friend if I want a less complimentary mode.

Yes interesting the naivity of ppl on this thread. My teens know better than to upload images to AI platforms. And as for setting the tone of the response, jfc ...

Honestly, @1035tg - I’m currently far more sad that as a non-Caucasian woman I cannot now contemplate a long-desired visit to a singular clothes shop in Belfast, than I am about what ChatGPT (paid for service with ‘training’ disabled) might do with information about my choice of frocks and face cream.

It's so sad isn't. I was at that shop (and the other one) just a few weeks ago and they are lovely.

In my limited engagement with Chat GPT I didn't upload any images of myself. However if my engagement with it encourages it to be slightly more imaginative when making suggestions for size 14 women, aged over 60 with a healthy budget, then that's an improvement on what it was doing.

I keep having this image of me standing outside the door of the shop, my hand reaching for the bell, or door handle or whatever, and all the staff inside staring at me and sadly shaking their heads, fearful of being firebombed if they let me in.

Makes me feel slightly sick.

So, if you don’t mind, @1035tg, I’ll comfort myself with deep dive conversations about seams and hairstyles with ChatGPT. If that brings about the end of the world - well, we do rather fucking deserve it.

Helping to destroy the environment, one pointless style question at a time. Yay!!

And the whataboutery pile-on a few days ago to the poster who dared question the use of AI for this pointless bollox was very enlightening.