That’s the promise, and the threat, ofincredibly realistic AI filters like Bold Glamour.
“As a professional mental health therapist, I understand how important it is to feel good about oneself.
However, using beauty filters can lead to unrealistic expectations and negative self-perceptions.
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If you want to know how it works, AI speaker and Snapchat lens creatorLuke Hurdhas a great explanation.
It boils down to the way AI, or machine learning, works.
An AI filter like this is trained by showing it millions of existing images of perfectly beautiful people.
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The result is that it isnt fazed by hands because it never sees a hand.
Its just adding pixels.
To clarify, imagine a chatbot AI.
This works the same way, only it is trained on millions of conversations on the internet.
It never conceives an entire sentence.
The Impossibility of Bold Glamour
The seamlessness ofBold Glamour’smanipulation makes it particularly perilous.
Using beauty filters can lead to unrealistic expectations and negative self-perceptions.
“Filters like Bold Glamour train developing brains to expect an unrealistic level of perfection.
Lisa Dunnetold Lifewire via email.
“The constant obsession with facial perfection is already creating an unprecedented rise in narcissism.
Like all machine-learning tools, the Bold Glamour AI inherits the biases of the data it learns from.
In this case, it transforms women into overly made-up dolls with features stretched toward surgical perfection.
But it also reflects the societal imbalance between men and women.
There are just fewer images of over-processed men compared to women.
If you train the AI model on rugged good looks, you get rugged, good-looking results.
It’s essential to recognize that everyone can struggle with self-esteem, regardless of gender,” says Lawless.
As for what we can do to mitigate these effects, it’s not looking good.
As long as these AI filters are available, then people will use them.
We can probably just add one more societal headache to the list of problems resulting from social media.
