--- title: "With the Powers of AI, Annoying Dorks Can Now Pretend They’re Friends With Cool Famous People" description: "AI bros are cool and have lots of cool friends, which is why they're using AI to generate photos of themselves with lots of cool friends." date: "2025-12-21" modified: "2025-12-21" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/dorks-ai-celebrity-friends" categories: - "Future Society" --- # With the Powers of AI, Annoying Dorks Can Now Pretend They’re Friends With Cool Famous People ![AI bros are cool and have lots of cool friends, which is why they're using AI to generate photos of themselves with lots of cool friends.]() *AI Generated Video (Screenshot) via @nouryyildiz / X* We're sure AI will be used to cure cancer or solve climate change any day now. In the meantime, its adherents are mostly using the astonishingly expensive tech to churn out loads of slop. It doesn't get any more embarrassing than one of the latest trend making waves through AI circles. With the release of Google's new video generating AI Nano Banana Pro, dorky nerds the world over are using the AI tool to make it look like they're chummy with loads of cool and famous people — a perfect encapsulation of their desperation to be accepted by the artists they love, and the culture at large. One [video]() generated by a man purporting to be a filmmaker shows himself walking around an increasingly incomprehensible film set taking selfies with AI lookalikes of Hollywood celebrities ranging from Will Smith to Jack Nicholson to Tom Hardy to Uma Thurman to Clint Eastwood to Marlon Brando. https://twitter.com/nouryyildiz/status/1998479174583939435 In another celebrity selfie [video](), a man walks around a greenscreen room and meets up with famous actors dressed up as "Dragon Ball Z" characters. Ever desire to see epic stuff like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Majin Buu, Brad Pitt as Goku, or Timothée Chalamet as Trunks? Better yet, with you standing next to them, arm around their shoulders? Well, there you have it. https://twitter.com/pabloprompt/status/2000706593579573301 Google officially released Nano Banana Pro for its Gemini chatbot last month, and fans quickly noticed that it was [absolutely stellar at generating fake smartphone photos](), including faces. Soon, someone made a post showing how they were able to generate eerily life-like selfies with celebrities and the prompts they used, and it quickly [went viral on Reddit]() and [Twitter](). Another post, [titled]() "I met many celebs," is some of the most upvoted content on the Gemini subreddit. It isn't always received well, though. A now-deleted stab at the selfie trend was [shouted down by commenters]() calling it "weird" and "creepy" — so not even some AI obsessives are on board with fabricating reality and stealing people's faces without permission. **More on AI:** [*People Are Already Creating Ghoulishly Horrifying Sora Disney Videos*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()