Viking AI Apps are Terrible

You may have seen a variety of apps floating around the internet lately called "What Would You Look Like As A Viking" or similar.
Well, it sure as heck isn't whatever their algorithm decides to cobble together with poorly regulated AI tech and some horny helmets. These are apps that take your photo and slap a filter on it, call it "viking", and that's your lot.

Seriously, the stuff that these apps are creating is absolute garbage, and it's a fairly transparent money grab in some instances. In others, it's fairly clearly just another way of getting some of your private data, your image, or other information. There's nothing in them that can be used as a basis for a good reenactment impression, or that should be taken as representative of Old Norse or Scandinavian medieval culture at all. It's pure fantasy. More Baldur's Gate than Baldr.

And did I mention they look rubbish? Because they all look rubbish. To say nothing of the fact they're stealing actual art and photography.

This is one to avoid, friends.

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