AI versus Marshy - Using ChatGPT for Fashion Advice

I’m excited to share a practical example of using ChatGPT for fashion advice, but first, let me give you a quick rundown of what’s been going on in the world of AI and building in public. If you’re new here, don’t worry - this article will still make sense, but if you’re curious about the bigger picture, I’d love to catch you up. In previous editions of this newsletter, I’ve been experimenting with using AI tools to build and improve my projects, and today I want to share a fun example of how I used ChatGPT to get fashion advice. My friend Anna shared this practical example for people who are less than fashion-minded (people like myself!) Ruud wrote up on LinkedIn an example of using GPT Vision to recommend items of clothing. Snappy! I got excited by this one and bit off more than I could chew. << warning - NERDING OUT section - skip the next few paragraphs to avoid nerd >> One of the things I learned recently is that you can use ChatGPT to create “synthetic data”. This is a fancy way of saying dummy information. This is useful when you’re building things as you need data to feed it. For example - you might be prototyping a client analytics dashboard, but you don’t have live data to feed it. Asking for dummy data can help move it forward until you get access to live data. It turns out you can also do this with image generation. Well… to a point. I wanted to build my own GPT for this but wasn’t near my wardrobe - so I asked it to create a version of my wardrobe for me. ​ Plastic t-shirts! It was being lazy and trying to put them into one image, and this didn’t suit me as I wanted separate images. ​ My actual jeans are less snappy. ​ Then I hit another unexpected snag - an image generation limit! Originally appeared in newsletter : AI versus Marshy #52 - fashion, picture editing, and building my biz