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Russian Instagram Bot Imagines Elon Musk's Life as a Woman

What do you do in your free time?

Create an Instagram account that transforms Elon Musk into a woman, obviously.

Russia's obsession with the Tesla founder continues to grow with a new project that imagines him as a beautiful Russian woman named Elona Musk.

Each post is generated by a neural network that was trained using machine learning by looking at thousands of real users' Instagram accounts. The bot uses face-replacement technology to impose Musk's face on photos of women and writes its captions based on what it thinks a real Instagram user sounds like.

The captions generated by the neural network are so bizarre that we had to include them. Our favorites are below:
neural_tp / Instagram

Meet Elona. She loves chilling by the pool in her free time. 

"Of all my hobbies, I like problems with self-esteem the most."

"Broke a nail, but everything is fine."

"Girlfriend, one truth: The children in a store are exactly the same (except they have an automatic transmission.)" 

"I don’t know who Pushkin, Bulgakov and Asadov are. So, the world is changing for the better!" 

Elona on a casual Monday. 

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