Luscious hair and more weight: Artificial intelligence shows different versions of Selena Quintanilla at 52 and causes controversy over the appearance of the “Queen of Tex-Mex”

Selena Quintanilla would have turned 52 on April 16 if her dreams had not been cut short by Yolanda Saldívar. But with artificial intelligence (AI) anything is possible, and thanks to it we can have an idea of ​​what the “Queen of Tex-Mex” would look like today.

Yolanda Saldívar spends her days as a janitor in the Texas prison where she is being held for the murder of Selena

A combination of algorithms yielded a sample of future images of other artists and celebrities such as Shakira and Gerard Piqué. He also gave an insight into what people who are no longer with us like Lady Di would look like.

Now it’s Selena’s turn, the Mexican-American singer who was murdered on March 31, 1995 in Corpus Christi, Texas, when she was barely 23 years old.

What would Selena Quintanilla look like at 52?

Surely many are wondering what it would look like today, and we can have the answer to that question at our fingertips thanks to artificial intelligence.

The website Unicable reproduced photos with the appearance of Selena Quintanilla for this 2023. AI ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The photo collage shows the look the singer would wear today, with lush hair but just as beautiful as when she ceased to exist. These graphs seem less realistic than another piece of evidence of artificial intelligence created from another photograph from when she lived some 30 years ago.

Features such as thinner eyebrows, a sharp nose and full lips were taken into account when creating the futuristic design to make Selena Quintanilla look older and fatter than she was in the 1990s, when her music career was in full swing.

This latest picture gave room for different opinions from fans, as some of them expressed their displeasure that the diva was seen with this look.

“It’s disrespectful and mocking, not even JLo, who is older than Selena, looks like that, nor the same sister who is just as old,” said an angry user on Twitter, reviewing the website Mamá Latinas.

Project “As if nothing happened”

Turkish photographer Alper Yesiltas launched a project called “As if nothing happened” in which he uses artificial intelligence to show how celebrities who died a few years ago would look today.

In his Instagram posts, he showed pictures of Michael Jackson, Heath Leadger and Paul Walker, to name a few. But Selena Quintanilla is not left out of her gallery, Milenio mentions.

“Behind this project is the question: what would people look like if no big events happened to them? I look forward to your comments and suggestions”, added the artist.

This almost real version of Selena shows a very different image of the artist than others that have appeared on the Internet thanks to artificial intelligence. (AND)