A Cat Owner Used AI to Imagine What Her Rescue Cat Looked Like as a Kitten

A Japanese user sent current photos of her adopted adult cat to an AI and asked it to generate images of what the cat might have looked like as a kitten — a small, personal use case that went viral.

Sometimes the most resonant AI use cases are the simplest. A Japanese user who adopted a cat named Kurumi at age four shared that she'd always dreamed of seeing what her cat looked like as a kitten — something she missed by adopting an adult rescue. So she sent current photos to an AI and asked it to extrapolate backward, as @kurumi_sabi shared.

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