• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    What a time to be alive

    Also why is no one talking about the fact that they made the young women skinnier. Young women already feel have unrealistic expectations without AI in the mix.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      It’s not new. Once it became possible to shop hi-res photographs, it became standard to narrow fashion models slightly in order to make them look even thinner.

      I learned about it from documentaries intended to highlight the unrealistic appearance expectations that are driven by media.

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
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      17 hours ago

      It’s in the first paragraph.

      Stanford University acknowledged Tuesday that artificial intelligence was used to alter a photograph of three students for promotional materials, replacing a male student with a Black woman and making another student appear thinner

      I agree they effectively replaced the woman too, and gave the guy in the middle a haircut, cheek bone enhancements, eyebrow grooming and a bigger smile 😬