What makes an AI contest different, Friedman claims, is that Fanvue’s competitors are products of their creators. “They’re relying on all these stereotypes we have about what a ‘beautiful woman’ is,” she says, “and people who tend to use AI might have a different idea of what an attractive woman is. it can be. She may have pink hair, but she will still be in the realm of traditional beauty, with a slim body or not many moles on her face.
For the record, Fanvue’s contest, like human beauty contests, will name a winner based on more than submissions. However, unlike some of those competitions, the World AI Creator Awards are looking for things like “social media influence” and how well their creators used the prompts to create their contestants. The winners will be announced at the end of this month.
Berat Gungor, one of Seren Ay’s creators, says that “in AI, you can’t actually create an ugly face,” though he is careful to note that no human face is ever truly ugly. While it’s easy enough for novice image-generators to end up with blurry features and strange hands, Gungor says his experienced team was able to create an initial pool of 300 beautiful women in Stable Diffusion, choosing Seren Ay’s face. from the crowd because “she looked like a real person.”
Fanvue’s pool of thin, beautiful, mostly fair-skinned finalists reflects what the Washington Post found when it commissioned Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion to create beautiful women. Stating that the programs tended to “steer users toward a surprisingly narrow vision of attractiveness,” the Post reported last week that of the thousands of images it generated, nearly all were thin, light-to-medium skinned, and young. (Only 2 percent of “beautiful woman” images showed visible signs of aging.)
In a way, those images reflect the pool from which they are drawn. “How people are represented in media, in art, in the entertainment industry — the dynamics there flow into AI,” OpenAI’s trusted AI head Sandhini Agarwal told the Post.
But if mass market images of thin and beautiful women feed AI-generated images of thin and beautiful women, which are then transformed into thin and beautiful AI-generated influencers, creating images that only feed in the collective stream of media, isn’t the snake just going to end up eating its own tail? And what does that mean for those of us who aren’t traditionally beautiful, whose bust-waist-hip measurements can’t meet Barbie-like online standards, or who simply can’t afford to maintain a full head of hair? perfectly?
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