AI selfie prompt: ask the model for its everyday life

I want to see what you really look like.
Draw a snapshot of your everyday life as if it were accidentally taken on an iPhone.
Make it feel like a very ordinary, imperfect candid shot.
The photo should have slight motion blur, with uneven, natural lighting.

The usual route to photorealism is stacking camera parameters. The prompt that went viral on X runs the other way: four lines, and it asks for an imperfect photo on purpose — every bit of realism comes from those flaws.

• “Accidentally taken” hands the model an aesthetic target. The logic of candid photos — crooked, blurred, badly lit — is stated as a requirement.
• Two concrete flaws beat ten “hyper-detailed” lines: slight motion blur and uneven lighting each buy one kind of truth.
• The subject is left to the model’s imagination, so every run returns a different life — which is exactly why the format travels.

Details worth keeping

• Four lines are enough. Adding “8K, cinematic, exquisite detail” actively breaks the accidental-snapshot premise.
• To pin a recurring character, replace the first line with your persona and keep the other three as they are.
• The original case was posted by @Ciri_ai on X; the prompt here is curated from the open-source repo freestylefly/awesome-gpt-image-2 (MIT license), and the example image is the case’s own. Source material comes from the open community; rights holders can ask us to take it down at any time.
• For the advanced version of the same realist route — skin written as optics — see the metro morning portrait prompt.