Google Arts And Culture App Will Match Your Selfie To A Famous Painting, But We Can't Promise It Will Be Flattering

Google always keeping that ego in check 😂
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Ever been in a museum and wondered what you would look like painted in oils and put up on a giant canvas? Well now is your chance to find out.

Because we didn’t have enough pointless procrastination tools at our disposal already, Google has updated their Arts and Culture app to allow people to find their artistic doppelgänger.

Just by uploading a selfie, the app uses artificial intelligence to scan your features and try to find a match in its database of thousands of portraits.

Google Arts And Culture App

The app has been around since 2016, but the new experimental idea (which has so far only been launched in the USA) has seen the app be propelled to number one position in the American Apple app store within 24 hours.

So we imagine they’ll be keen to rollout the feature elsewhere around the world.

Until that point, we can sit back and enjoy the (seriously) unflattering comparisons that some people are being served up by Google.

I’ve taken like 20 selfies with the Google arts & culture app and gotten this horrifying guy as my top result EVERY SINGLE TIME, who do I sue pic.twitter.com/PjuvT0IXIU

— Caroline Wazer (@CarolineWazer) January 13, 2018

Honestly fuuuuuuuck google arts and culture pic.twitter.com/8W4gLO48PJ

— Linz (@LinzElah) January 14, 2018

I tried messing with the google arts and culture app and it owned me incredibly hard pic.twitter.com/aF9qAlLZOa

— el hechizado (@Nixon_Robocop) January 13, 2018

... TFW everyone you know is posting their art-look-alike from the @Google Arts & Culture app, and you get *this* dude... 😆 pic.twitter.com/oN7gNeIC3I

— Kristina Killgrove ☠ (@DrKillgrove) January 15, 2018

me: wow google arts and culture sounds like such a fun app! im excited to see what art i look like :)
me, seconds later: pic.twitter.com/mNQmpBVbKw

— i’m warped (@cfields1031) January 14, 2018

thank you Google Arts and Culture App for lowering my self esteem by 31% pic.twitter.com/AyOu6mJokB

— Leah Darpel (@LeahDarpel) January 14, 2018

The Google Arts and Culture app straight up just bullied me pic.twitter.com/fXd5HXbjow

— Whitsie (@whitsiee) January 14, 2018

The Google Arts and Culture app matches selfies with a famous painting, so Im actually a Korean women pic.twitter.com/LEPaVo6DiX

— Nevin (@Poolpuong) January 15, 2018

Other people got a little carried away with their own versions of the app.

Wow this google arts and culture app is scary accurate pic.twitter.com/z9nEXOWg8b

— blake j (@BlakeJ98) January 15, 2018

Fuck this app pic.twitter.com/kJJWaf8oV0

— Biniam Bizuneh (@biniambiz) January 13, 2018

But most people thought their results were actually a pretty fair representation.

This google arts and culture app is pretty amazing. Feel real strong about my 40% 😳 pic.twitter.com/2iyexRkUG5

— pw (@petewentz) January 14, 2018

GET THE GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE APP IT HAS A PART WHERE YOU CAN TAKE A SELFIE AND IT TELLS YOU WHAT PAINTING YOU LOOK LIKE I LOOK LIKE THIS POP ART HOUSEWIFE APPARENTLY pic.twitter.com/IMcec2u2bZ

— Lauren Brandt 🦈 (@Lauren_Brandt_) January 12, 2018

I'm a study for death, and proud of it! pic.twitter.com/BLvvrjNe4R

— Lena Cuisine (@alenahelzer) January 14, 2018

I downloaded the Google Arts and Culture app to use the face comparison tool. My students have been telling me for years King Henry VIII was my doppelgänger and they seem to have been right. Guess my Halloween costume for next year is set. pic.twitter.com/nfPcHvCn0y

— Ben Estes (@theBenEstes) January 14, 2018

This Google Arts and Culture app is scarily accurate. pic.twitter.com/9TEngKUdkd

— SUN (@ictussunshine) January 14, 2018

Now we’ve just got to wait for it to arrive in the UK.

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