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With most people taking extra measures and self-isolating due to the global outbreak of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), online games and applications are gaining more popularity among people with extra free time.

A Japanese developer named Sato, also known as AI Gahuku, created an AI app that turns users’ selfies or pictures into a Renaissance painting.

The AI generator features several filters, giving users different options on what they would like their piece of art to look like.

The app has caused a new social media trend, with people turning celebrity photos into artworks, as well as their own pictures and even their pets’.

https://twitter.com/S_Sprinter/status/1243683001411592194?s=20

Most people are taking to Twitter to share their entertaining portraits along with fitting captions.

https://twitter.com/KariemMoe/status/1245624756298084352?s=20

The trend spiked at the end of March, according to Google’s search results over the last 30 days worldwide.

https://twitter.com/pettylebeast/status/1246386311877087234?s=20

By simply uploading your picture of choice on the generator (ai-art.tokyo), it will automatically be transformed into a Renaissance painting.