{"id":923916,"date":"2025-04-21T07:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923916"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:07:30","slug":"from-messi-to-trump-ai-action-figures-are-the-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/21\/from-messi-to-trump-ai-action-figures-are-the-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"From Messi to Trump, AI action figures are the rage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: The latest internet obsession is one impossible to escape on social media: images of well-known figures in plastic toy packaging alongside evocative props&#8230; welcome to the meme of AI action figures. <\/p>\n<p>The figurines aren&#8217;t real, but thanks to ChatGPT&#8217;s new image generator they look genuine, and they are flooding platforms from TikTok to LinkedIn. <\/p>\n<p>There, you&#8217;ll see a &#8220;toy&#8221; image of football star Lionel Messi alongside a ball and trophies, or a caricature of US President Donald Trump alongside a MAGA cap and a sign reading tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: The latest internet obsession is one impossible to escape on social media: images of well-known figures in plastic toy packaging alongside evocative props&#8230; welcome to the meme of AI action figures. The figurines aren&#8217;t real, but thanks to ChatGPT&#8217;s new image generator they look genuine, and they are flooding platforms from TikTok to LinkedIn. There, you&#8217;ll see a &#8220;toy&#8221; image of football star Lionel Messi alongside a ball and trophies, or a caricature of US President Donald Trump alongside a MAGA cap and a sign reading tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}