The strange rise of the world’s first AI beauty contest
What makes an AI competition different, Friedman asserts, is that Fanvue’s contestants are the product of their creators. “They are playing on all the stereotypes we have about what a beautiful woman is,” she said. And those who tend to use AI may have a different idea of what an attractive woman is. She may have pink hair, but she still belongs to the realm of traditional beauty, with a skinny body or not many moles on her face.”
For the record, Fanvue’s contest, like human beauty pageants, will designate winners based on more than appearance. Unlike some of those competitions, however, the World AI Creator Awards are looking for things like “social media influence” and how effectively their creators used prompts. to create candidates. The winner will be announced later this month.
Berat Gungor, one of the creators of Seren Ay, says that “in AI, you can’t really make an ugly face,” although he is careful to note that there are no real human faces. clumsiness. While it can be easy for beginners to create images to encounter blurred lines and strange hands, Gungor says his experienced team was able to create an initial group of 300 beautiful women in Stable diffusioneventually chose Seren Ay’s face in the crowd because “she looked like a real person”.
What Fanvue’s group of thin, beautiful, mostly light-skinned finalists reflects The Washington Post found it as it tasks Dall-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion with creating beautiful women. Claiming that these programs tend to “guide users toward a shockingly narrow vision of attractiveness,” the Post reported last week that of the thousands of images it generated, almost all Both are thin, light to medium skinned and young. (Only 2 percent of “beautiful woman” images show obvious signs of aging.)
In a way, those images mirror the lake they come from. Sandhini Agarwal, OpenAI’s head of trusted AI, told the Post: “The way people are represented in the media, in the arts, in the entertainment industry — the dynamics there have influenced WHO”.
But if mass-market images of thin, beautiful women give rise to AI-generated images of thin, beautiful women, then these people become thin, beautiful influencers. AI-generated beauty creates images that respond to the collective media stream, right? Will the snake eventually eat its own tail? And what does that mean for those of us who aren’t traditionally beautiful, whose bust-waist-hip ratio can’t meet the same online standards as Barbie, or who don’t? afford the maintenance of a perfectly trimmed haircut. ?
