TechRadar Reviewer Says ChatGPT's Virtual Fitting Room Got the Clothes Right but Changed Her Body

The item appeared under the headline "I tried ChatGPT's new virtual fitting room — it got the clothes right, but changed my body". TechRadar's account did not describe the technology behind the fitting room, where or when the feature is available, or whether the change to the user's body came from image processing, the model's defaults or settings chosen by the user. The headline's contrast between correct garments and an altered body is the reviewer's own description of the output. No comment from the developer of ChatGPT, and no second test of the feature, accompanied the TechRadar piece.

Becca is a freelance journalist and author who has written about consumer technology and popular science for more than ten years, covering subjects that include virtual and augmented reality, wearables, digital health and space technology. Her first book, Screen Time, about how people can learn to love their technology rather than feel stressed by it, was published in January 2021 by Bonnier Books. She has contributed to TechRadar, T3, Wired, New Scientist, The Guardian and Inverse, among other outlets, and previously worked as an international editor at MSN, an associate editor at Lifehacker UK and a publisher at Shiny Media. She holds a degree in English Language and Literature and a master's in Public Relations and Strategic Marketing Communications, and began her career in technology public relations and marketing.

Virtual try-on tools have become a common feature of shopping apps and AI assistants, where a user's photograph is used to show how a garment might look. The TechRadar account addresses the fidelity of that rendering rather than the shopping experience, and it does not state whether the body shape seen in the result matched the user's own measurements.