ChatGPT's Roasting Trend: AI Takes on Social Media Profiles

Viral trend asks ChatGPT to roast your profile -- the results are...

A new challenge is going viral on the social media platform in which people ask ChatGPT to "roast your feed in one paragraph" -- and the results are brutal. People have taken to X, formerly Twitter, to share the roasts of their feeds, and the AI robot didn't hold back. ChatGPT told one user, "I'm guessing you spend more time flexing in front of mirrors than actually exploring the city" and called them a "beefcake sensation." "Your feed is like a bad breakup between Tumblr and Instagram -- except they both lost the fight," ChatGPT told another person. "Maybe try turning on a light and smiling once in a while." "It's like you went on a grand tour of Europe just to prove you own more jackets than most people own shoes," another roast said. Some other roasts tell the user that they are "trying too hard to be spontaneous" or that they have "generic dude-at-a-party vibes." Others were told their profiles seemed "like a midlife crisis" or like "the LinkedIn of Instagram profiles." The Australian Ballet took part in the trend as well, and ChatGPT told them that their account looks like "a never-ending audition for 'Swan Lake.'" The robot is apparently fluent at hyper-specific insults tailored to your Instagram. Instagrammers have been sharing their results through the "Add Yours" template, which allows people to quickly add their own roast and see others who added to the template as well. As of Wednesday morning, 397,000 people have added to the template.

Influencers are asking ChatGPT to roast their profiles. Here's what it said about mine.

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. When New York City-based model Alyssa Lindaas asked the chatbot to roast her profile, it had smart pop culture references to summarize her feed. "It's like you're living between a Vogue cover shoot and a Wes Anderson film, but throwing in some moody vibes for the aesthetic," ChatGPT wrote to Lindaas. But it all changed when she asked it to be mean. Instead of "polished, cool, and effortlessly chic," it called out Lindaas for overusing black-and-white pictures to appear "'deep.'" "Your feed looks like it's desperately trying to convince everyone you're effortlessly cool, but we all know you spent hours curating that 'I woke up like this' vibe," the chatbot responded. And so, after seeing how its answers ranged from sweet to brutal, I (bravely) decided to show ChatGPT my own Instagram to see how a data-trained large language model perceived my online presence. Warning: don't ask it to be mean unless you're ready for it. "Roast my Instagram feed in one paragraph," my prompt read. It replied, "One second you're at a yacht party with the skyline behind you, the next you're chilling with a virtual reality headset like you're escaping from all the fashion statements you're making." Its response made me smile and also wonder if I'm not as mysterious as I thought I was. ChatGPT had gathered information based on the photos on my Instagram and determined what it all says about me as a person. I didn't lose sight of the irony that ChatGPT is not a person. It's also worth noting that I've never been to a yacht party, so it was wrong on that part, at least. And when I told it to be mean, it didn't hold back. Instead of praising my Vision Pro selfie like it did in its first message, ChatGPT roasted me even harder for the photo. It wrote, "The VR headset is peak 'I'm trying too hard,' but at least it distracts from that random cityscape shot where you look as lost as your theme. And seriously, what's with the birthday balloon?" Ouch. Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has previously said that he doesn't want a future where people are closer to AI chatbots than their human friends, but his company continues to work toward making their tech more intuitive and conversational. Still, I'm not sure I feel closer to ChatGPT after having my digital footprint critiqued so harshly.