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[Steve Sensible]

Go here, upload a photo of yourself, and let it work its magic. You can click through several lookalikes using the left and right arrows.

You can restrict the gender to just male or female, but it's more fun if you don't. This photo of me gave options ranging from George Clooney to Whitney Houston!

[Chris Fenton]

I see the Whitney likeness but not Clooney. When I'm on an actual computer I'll give this a try. I'm sure it'll just choose someone known for being grossly overweight.

[Christian U]

Haven't mentioned this before, Steve, but in pictures, you always remind me a bit of my old friend Peter:




I suspect he doesn't count as a celebrity, though. He's an actor, but not a famous one, unfortunately.

Edited by Christian U, 14 April 2012 - 07:06 PM.

[Steve Sensible]

I see the Whitney likeness but not Clooney.

The computer wouldn't lie, Chris!

Actually the first option that comes up with that pic is Annette Benning. I'll take that...

[stephanie familiar]

i'm tempted to choose a particularly hideous picture, and see what it spits out. maybe val kilmer or sandra bernhard.

[garjones]

I'm going to try another one with me not wearing glasses. It seems that kind of overpowers anything else. Despite having a crew cut and 3 day stubble my second choice was a blonde German woman with, admittedly, very similar glasses to mine.

[Christian U]

David Schwimmer? Fuck you, machine!

Hm. Boris Becker... stereotyping, but not bad...

[Arjan Dirkse]

I'm not saying what it said.

[Christian U]

Now that's better! Willem Dafoe, Greta Gabo, Dennis Quaid, Keith Richards!

[Mike]

I dunno, I don't think it's that consistent - even fairly similar photos generate wildly different names, and they all look pretty different to each other.

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Names it spat out more than once: Matt Stone, the Dalai Lama, Alexis Denisof, Matthew Perry, Morten Harket, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And Janeanne Garaolfo, but I think that is just the glasses.

[Steve Sensible]

I'm not saying what it said.

Telllll usssss!

[Arjan Dirkse]

Telllll usssss!

NOOOO!!

Dick Cheney

[stephanie familiar]

David Schwimmer? Fuck you, machine!

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[Steve Sensible]

I dunno, I don't think it's that consistent.

It's not at all consistent. The reason I tried it in the first place was because my friend Karolina was bugging me to find a look-alike for her. We used to to do it for everyone at work, but we never found one for her, and when I saw her recently at a wedding, I told her her date was the spitting image of Paul Rudd. So I tried this thing with a few pics of her from her Facebook page, and it gave wildly different answers for each pic. It did come up with Liv Tyler though, which isn't a bad choice.

It just looks for pics that are taken at similar angles as far as I can tell - I don't think it's particularly sophisticated - it's just a bit of fun.

[stuperrins]

apparently i look like david soul, mike myers, dennis quaid and arnie? wtf?

[Adam Balson]

I've been told I look a bit like Daniel Radcliffe and Tyger Grew-Honey(the older brother from Outnumbered, Jake)... who look nothing like each other...

And the machine thinks I look like: Katie Holmes, Eddie Kaye Thomas (Paul 'Fincher' Finch from American Pie), Hayden Panettiere and tied at 67% are Gareth Gates and Olivia de Havilland...

FUCK THAT NOISE!

EDIT: Tried again and got Daniel Radcliffe, Kurt Kobain, Cillian Murphy and Richard Hammond. HA! It's crazy how much difference having a pic with your mouth open rather than closed makes for this thing.

I really want Ell to try it now to see if we get the same/similar results!

Edited by Adam Balson, 14 April 2012 - 11:31 PM.

[brucegray666]

Desided to cheat a bit and use my Xbox avatar (which I'm also using on Twitter and Facebook) first off.



The program spat out: Jada PInket Smith, Paris Hilton, Shirley Manson, Andie McDowell and Christian Slater.

[Chris D]

Let's see, I got results ranging from Eric Bana, Heath Ledger, and Gary Cooper to Eva Mendes, Barbara Stanwyck, and Lucile Ball.

[Russell H]

Kevin Kline and Norman Mailer.

No.

[Christian U]

Desided to cheat a bit and use my Xbox avatar (which I'm also using on Twitter and Facebook) first off.



The program spat out: Jada PInket Smith, Paris Hilton, Shirley Manson, Andie McDowell and Christian Slater.

Having met you, I can say with some authority that you are indeed the spitting image of Paris Hilton and Andie MacDowell.