A social media trend has people running their photos through AI to give themselves neon, big-hair, synth-pop makeovers. Kylie Minogue's contribution was an actual photograph: her in a make-up chair on the set of I Should Be So Lucky, crew getting ready behind her, captioned as one from the real 80s. Fans read it as a pointed refusal to join in, and the comments filled with thanks for skipping the AI slop. Gulf News ties the moment to a wider unease about the trend, including the water and power that image generation burns through at data-centre scale. It is a small story, but it is a neat example of a pop star using her own archive as an argument.
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