New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- The latest AI image trend is taking social media back several decades. From Bollywood-inspired portraits to photographs resembling old family albums, users are turning their present-day selfies into 1980s-style images with ChatGPT. The resulting pictures typically feature film grain, bold colours, dramatic lighting, period hairstyles and other visual elements associated with the decade.

The trend has spread across platforms including Instagram, where users are sharing their AI-generated retro portraits through posts and Reels.

However, getting a convincing 1980s photograph is not simply a matter of uploading a selfie and asking ChatGPT to make it look old. The wording of the prompt and the visual details specified...