AI Beauty Missed The Mark: How Machine Learning Unleashed a Beauty Pageant of Ghostly Illustrations
Welcome to the glossy world of machine learning, where computers not only steal our jobs, but also create female beauty ideals. In a rather dystopian twist, Fanvue and the World AI Creator Awards have kicked artificial intelligence up a notch, launching the world’s first “Miss AI” contest. Here, a blend of carbon-based and silicon-based judges behold heaps of AI creations, pick the fairest of them all, and award them… cash. Couldn’t make this up if you tried. Let’s break down this surreal soap opera of silicon supériorité:
Key Takeaways
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Less Reality, More Uncanny Valley:
Enter the “Miss AI” competition; it’s like the Miss Universe Pageant, but with more pixels and fewer trade secrets. Our theoretical contestant, Madame Potato, is an AI-generated interplay of gendered beauty norms, all bundled in a shiny, uncannily unreal package.
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Rise of the Machines:
Fanvue and the World AI Creator Awards have recently initiated the world’s first AI beauty contest. Our jury, comprising two humans and two virtual models, is in shoulder-deep with the high-def hotness, picking a winner out of an assembly line of AI-crafted stunners.
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Money Makes Miss AI Go Round:
The crowned “Miss AI” walks away with more than just a pixelated tiara. Alongside the cash prize, the winner has an opportunity to monetize their creation on Fanvue, which is like OnlyFans but less interesting.
Final Thoughts
To wrap this up, the future is looking more synthetic by the nanosecond. While some might see the “Miss AI” contest as a harmless, futuristic fun, others would argue that it amplifies existing gendered beauty standards, wraps them in an AI blanket, and delivers them straight into an already overflowing inbox of unrealistic expectations. We might not know what beauty is, but we can sure bet that it’s more than just an algorithm’s rendering of a visually appealing face. After all, was it not someone smart who once said, “beauty lies in the eye of the beholder”? Well, now it seems it might be lying in the eye of the…function holder. Oh, technology, you saucy minx, you’ve perplexed and disrupted us yet again.
As part of this experiment I would like to give credit where credit is due. If you enjoy these, please take a moment to read the original article:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/miss-ai-artificial-intelligence-models-gendered-beauty-norms
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