India, Sept. 9 -- Trending 80s Photo Prompt Instagram: A photograph taken on a modern smartphone can now look as if it came straight out of an old family album, Bollywood studio or magazine from four decades ago. That is exactly what the latest Instagram 80s photo trend is doing, as users turn their present-day pictures into AI-generated versions of themselves from the 1980s.

The trend has gained traction on Instagram Stories, where people are posting AI-created retro portraits and using the "Add Yours" sticker to encourage friends to join in. Instead of simply putting a faded filter over an existing photograph, users ask ChatGPT to recreate the entire scene with period-style clothes, hairstyles, accessories, backgrounds, lighting and an...