Learn how to create AI yearbook photos with viral Epik app

Individuals are leaning into childhood nostalgia and creating new faculty yearbook images because of the most recent AI-powered social media development. Epik, a free-to-download photograph modifying app, affords a 90s-style yearbook photograph edit that has gone viral on Instagram and TikTok. 

The development has change into so fashionable that Epik is at the moment the highest trending free app within the App Retailer. It is free to obtain however you must pay to generate your individual 90s-inspired images. 

This is the right way to make your individual, and the way it labored once I created yearbook images of Todd Haselton, CNBC’s deputy expertise editor.

You may see the AI Yearbook choice after you open the Epik app and a disclaimer that claims “AI outcomes could not at all times be passable.” And a few of them aren’t. A number of photos did not seem like Todd in any respect.

You may select between two paid tiers primarily based on the app’s wait instances: The usual tier prices $5.99 and can generate images inside 24 hours, and the specific tier prices $9.99 and can generate images inside two hours. As of Thursday, the usual tier was on sale for $3.99 and specific was $5.99. 

Each tiers generate 60 images utilizing 8-12 images the consumer uploads. The images are separated into classes, like “finest dressed” and “most athletic.”

It additionally says you’ll be able to’t add images of youngsters and that something that is uploaded is deleted from the app’s servers after it generates yearbook photos. Subsequent, I uploaded eight photographs, together with this pattern:

Some persons are experiencing delayed wait instances to make use of the service, which the app says is because of a “fast improve in customers.” The app is prompting some to attempt at a later time. I waited about an hour.

This is what it generated.