AI Models vs. Human Influencers 🤖

Aitana is an AI model and influencer. Her social media profile clearly says AI and her name begins with those letters too. But people in the comments still think she's real and brands are hiring her as an ambassador. She’s been making headlines for a while and isn’t alone. We think this story is a great lesson in media literacy for a world increasingly shaped by AI.

[@violettegami4582]

This reminds me of a twitter post I once saw "The thing about AI domination is that we went about it the wrong way. I don't want AI to make art or write stories for me so I have time to do my chores. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so I have more time to make arts and write stories"

[@xdlr22]

People who own companies already undervalued their creatives and artists and couldn’t wait to sell out that work. Look at all the AI bros who couldn’t give a rats ass about stealing from artists and said we should “get over it”. Look at the writer’s strike. Animation guild writers gets worse pay than usual Hollywood writers if you look into that whole industry. And it’s all thanks to greedy assholes like Walt Disney. It’s always the top thinking that they can do what we do because it’s so “easy” but they barely have the talent or the way to do it themselves. Now with AI they can freely undervalue people because they took away the skill gap between us and what they couldn’t do. All built on our unwitting backs and completely without our consent (lots of AI models are fed art without asking the artist or even paying them). AI is a nightmare for those of us who actually care about humanity and value the contribution of humans as individuals. Thankfully I think that’s why AI will also fall.

[@younscrafter7372]

There's a reason it's called artificial intelligence and not artificial muscle mass. The only part of doing laundry/dishes that ai could help with is identifying where on the floor/table your clothes/dishes are

[@kikosawa]

People who sponsor the development already don't have to do their chores

[@way9883]

​@@kikosawa unfortunately yes, and that's why it's a problem because those billionaires are greedy

[@shannadene9654]

Louder for the ones in the back

[@summerchild_]

"She doesn't smile all the time to show she is self-centered" "You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure" - John Berger

[@oliviac295]

great quote💯

[@nodrvgs]

such an introspective quote

[@notexactlynormal8363]

This!!

[@sofiakuvshinova5836]

Reading his book rn

[@annateather]

I tbimk the real reason she doesnt smile is that ai struggles to get the correct amount of teeth right

[@Katiee0592]

Anyone using AI needs to be required to put “this is an AI model” or image on their advertising and in videos, and our needs to be easily read- not hidden or in “fine print”

[@Tenly2009]

🙄 Should we also require “real” models to disclose how authentic they actually are? With all the filters and retouching done in the past few decades, the models we see on TV and print are only 50% authentic at best. The only reason to disclose if someone is real or artificial is so the creepers can decide which one to stalk.

[@Sinking_]

@@Tenly2009 this doesnt fall on the model, but the agencies and photo editors. so yes, if i had it my way this would be the standard. but i, an individual, cannot change an entire industry that I am not actively involved in.

[@joejacksononon]

Yes! Agreed.

[@cyberlord64]

I agree as long as the "real" models would also have to disclose any plastic surgery and filters they have added. Yall lose your shit cause of a generated picture and skip over the fact that it looks like it does cause it was trained on "real" people who have been the cause of body dismorphia for 4 decades now. _Cooooome the fuck oooon_ 😂

[@starrfrench6482]

Sadly, it CLEARLY says she's an AI influencer in her bio and that doesn't seem to matter

[@nooa69]

As a hairstylist, AI is becoming the bane of my job. Women are now coming in with pics of these flawless hair colors and they dont believe me when I say it's AI and I cant do exactly that because im not a f*cking computer. 🤦

[@pamelaibarra790]

Omg YES!!!!!! I'm a hairstylist too. Even knowing it's AI doesn't mean anything. They still want something unattainable.🤦‍♀️

[@seektruthwithviic]

I’m with you!!!

[@ibrahimcehajic]

Oh the shallowness and vapidity of the you know who

[@rathelmmc3194]

This has happened with plastic surgeons as well where people come in with manipulated photos of themselves and ask if it could be done.

[@seektruthwithviic]

@@rathelmmc3194 that’s just sad

[@megan-mr9vk]

we will do anything but pay a human being for their labor

[@sabaoempo2320]

This 😂😂

[@cesar6447]

Would you spend money when you have the option to not to

[@zubatski]

​@@cesar6447if I had no respect for other people's time and energy put into anything, i would. Bur people working hours to get a complete product so respect all said because they know how much time it costs to literally create anything that we have today. Of course, greed will always drive those who do this kind of stuff. But it doesnt mean all people should do this. I dont know, its just my point of view.

[@cantdecideausername8584]

Not "we" it's these greedy companies who would rather have robots than employees simply because of their ridiculous amount of greed.

[@NanaNaima1]

​@@cesar6447imagine if every corporation has that mindset. We'd literally be losing our jobs to AI/machines, then how will we afford to live?

[@exhaustedsprout1734]

i feel like all the "photos" of her actually look more like those hyper-realistic drawings of real people, rather than actual pictures of a person. there's just something a little off

[@octopus8978]

OMG REAL (Not intended) but it’s something feels a lil too perfect or off about it. It’s also crazy how much ai has gotten better to

[@ronniejones3719]

Yeah, everything seems too high-contrast, as though you would be able to see the penciled-in outline if you looked closely enough.

[@ForTheHopefulSorrow]

As someone who just took an art history course, if she was drawn by an actual person, we'd call it naturalistic instead of realistic. There is a difference. Naturalism is slightly more idealized and doesn't show hardship while realism does.

[@exhaustedsprout1734]

@ForTheHopefulSorrow as someone who's also studied art history, I'm not comparing her "photos" to naturalist works. To me the AI portraits are, in a sense, evocative of hyperrealist art, which is a style and movement that started in the early seventies out of the footprints of photorealism. Admittedly, I did use an incorrect spelling as the dash is actually not supposed to be included

[@prinssesarwa7946]

​@@ForTheHopefulSorrow is your name a BSD reference?

[@katrina.vivianne]

She doesn’t smile because some of the output create crooked teeth which would look weird. I work for a company that does this, and it’s really interesting to see how far AI has come.

[@armandoreyes2750]

Finally! Men can deal with intelligence as opposed to ignorance. No more back talk and time consuming arguments.

[@Chambermenz]

​@@armandoreyes2750back talk? you're not an authority, get over yourself.

[@armandoreyes2750]

@@Chambermenz silence yourself.

[@Chambermenz]

@@armandoreyes2750 after you

[@lorna525]

@@armandoreyes2750 are you saying you prefer AI generated women because they aren't real women who will at some point oppose you?

[@iLLEly0n]

This takes “fake internet theory” to a whole new level lol

[@Xxohh445]

‼️ social media platforms should make it a rule to state something is Ai ‼️

[@silynita]

They do. When you upload something you have to declare it's an AI or contains AI

[@chatdonut]

​@@silynita yeah I'm sure everybody will do that

[@Sylvershade]

Social medi platforms should add a rule that allows them to open a credit card in your name and max it out and bill it to you. And you would totally agree to that because you don't read things.

[@prncessbaby16]

Well her name is aitana so AI is in her name

[@valbankz292]

​@@silynitanormal people have to do this. But big corporations with money get pass that rule & pay for those rules to not be applicable towards them. It's business.

[@beccalife275]

The longer I stared the more photoshopped she appeared. It’s unnerving

[@saryntoews]

Her head is so separate from her neck, and her neck from her torso. No blend, soft edges, creasing…

[@tired247]

Fr, her jawline is so weird and disconnected

[@SylvainJoseGautier-]

In the sports outfit, her chest shading is so weirdly flat, and her skin just... glows in an unrealistic way

[@polycrystallinecandy]

It's called the placebo effect

[@arh1234]

Looks like AI, or a photoshopped human. We did it to ourselves, I fear.

[@LlFE]

Idolatry was the first drug.

[@strive4impact]

Whether we're ready or not... It's here. I'm working to reframe my question to "what could possibly go right?" Because we tend to create the future we envision.

[@ejing_]

i hate this so much. recently one of the biggest hair product brands in my country also started using AI images of women in their ads, which makes absolutely no sense to me. i want to see how the product looks on real women and how it actually performs? ai in marketing is so silly

[@dion5804]

Isn't this fake advertisement?

[@ethanreyes1797]

​@@dion5804It should be but AI is new technology, so there's not much laws implemented.

[@svinkuk2652]

yeah, and they never did that either lol. It used to be they hired the model, then they hired people to do her hair, then they hired teams of photographers to make the hair look great with lighting etc etc etc. Whatever they were selling was never part of the picture lol.

[@jonagreen7323]

But they photoshop the ads even without ai 😅

[@rubyluna9147]

You think you see any realness in regular advertisement?

[@teigenb829]

I am wildly concerned about people experiencing body dysmorphia because of images of people who aren't even real. I think this shouldn't be allowed as advertisements for this reason

[@error404webpagenotfound]

She's not real and she's really pretty but I do like that they made her look more real than the current influencers. She has creases under eyes like a real person would, she doesn't have huge boobs or butt, they gave her roots so her hair isn't perfect, she doesn't have high lip filler lips. Like yes she really pretty, but she does actually look real instead of the photoshop influencers and celebrities we see sometimes. But I do recognize that this could go in a negative way especially when they're made to look 100% perfect with unattainable beauty standards.

[@BL00DYR0S31]

Girl please do you realise everyone whos anyone touches up their photos. Most notable are celebrities /influencers so theres no difference wether its real or AI. If nonrealistic body image is your concern then your gonna have to take down any form of media that deals with image.

[@sundaysundaesundaaay6424]

Peolple should know better to not let something literally not real to cause them mental warfare I mean seriously...

[@Havis_Princess]

Or people can get therapy like i did? Like

[@umhi9778]

​@@BL00DYR0S31but ai could be used to make unrealistic Photoshops more realistic and faster-making the problem worse and more widespread.

[@oculosaperire4678]

Models need to band together & fight for laws to pass protecting their jobs.... Just like musicians & actors have been doing. This is NOT OKAY. AI should be doing my dishes & typing my scholarship essays... Not modeling!

[@Yes_Anastasia]

So it’s ok to take jobs away from dishwashers and manual labor, but not artists? That’s where we draw the line?

[@kozmosius]

​@@Yes_Anastasialol my exact thought

[@m.i.n.9000]

@@Yes_Anastasia wait.. you have a person washing your dishes in your home? anyway the idea is ai should be doing the jobs you don't want to do, not the jobs that make you happy

[@thepsychicbeagle3378]

​@@m.i.n.9000well call me cynical but in this case i think AI is doing a job i dont want anyone to do, the reason influencers and ads exsist is to make you act against your own self interest after all

[@m.i.n.9000]

@@thepsychicbeagle3378 I get that. but some people actually enjoy posting their existence, and the fact that they make money of it is just the cherry on top

[@L3x4Pr0ne]

I have to hat tip to the person who was like “we can definitely make bank on this concept.” …and is just nailing it.

[@TheFireStarter1215]

I feel like human's curse is to distract itself from reaching our spiritual & physical limits by venturing too deep into technological tools. We haven't solved war, hunger, hate & illness yet we have... this to occupy time with amongst many other trivial things. I hope there's still time to bring back focus on people & each other.

[@jenifernadeau]

The only answer is love and the opposite of Love is fear❤

[@90ejb]

Only Jesus can pull us through the evil agenda of AI. And you're right with your first sentence. We are in a literal spiritual battle for our souls. AI gives us the unrealistic standards that are already forced on everyday people. This world isn't meant for us anymore

[@Jessica-cl3mk]

Bingo! Never were more true words spoken!

[@Regina-ul9un]

true story ❤

[@thecosmicsoulpodcast9153]

Your comment is it ❤

[@tobennaokoli4450]

It’s so weird bc I don’t think AI can create something from nothing. That “person” is a mishmash of a bunch of different people’s features. Let’s put aside “it’s taking jobs away from real people.” It’s kind of taking away real people from real people. This is why we really need laws on what AI can and can’t do.

[@theewildrose]

Thats what humans are lol

[@sabaoempo2320]

​@@theewildrose say that to yourself

[@darkopz]

@@sabaoempo2320well they’re right. New humans are a mishmash of a bunch of different “features” of two other humans.

[@desiree2401]

they probably use an actual female model for the poses, and then run those pictures through the ai

[@goopbuni]

@@theewildroseyes but one gets the participating humans consent while the other doesn’t. the people whose faces/bodies are being used to create her likely did not consent to it

[@batanaichimuka2716]

Yet she is more authentic than human influencers 😂😂

[@Trashpanda888]

"She can pass as real." Welcome to the future folks.

[@bath_foam4576]

the point of models is to show what the clothes look like on an actual person as reference. this "ai model" is nothing but a pretty picture

[@killerclowncar1606]

THANK YOU

[@MeredithDomzalski]

EXACTLY!!!

[@BobSmith-kd6lq]

Kinda like a mannequin.

[@NightRidah777]

Arent most women covered in makeup and fake anything anyway when theyre oit and behind filters when they're online. This might make even more sense now than we thought since everyone is fake.

[@chicho._.]

Ai shouldn't take over jobs that humans have fun doing

[@StephTL27]

Exactly I wonder if sooner or later laws will need to be put for AI technology which it should already seeing that a boy from new Jersey used it to have naked photos of his girl classmates in highschool..

[@notexactlynormal8363]

I mean,,, with AI the humans that couldn’t be influencers now could make an AI and just run the account.

[@lalaisoyan757]

I think if this becomes a trend, it would become boring to look at all those ideal carefully calculated pictures of flawless people. Human authenticity would be considered a more desirable feature for influencers, and we would see more real people, less editing and lying

[@DianaRamirez-sm5nx]

Exactly

[@glowy_theythem]

All of this so that large corporations wouldn't pay money or educate themselves on who they give resources to. So they just make a person to fit their needs. It's gross.

[@Nuan07]

As long as it removes the idea of being an "influencer" or only fans "model" as a job, I can only see positive things. Hopefully it'll help reduce the level and type of narcissism we see in girls on the Internet today and lead them towards something healthier.

[@12137Marth]

People hate that AI look like fake women yet we're ok with society telling women to look fake in order to feel good about themelves 😔

[@nixymew987]

Idk if it’s just me being an artist but you can tell pretty easily based on the smoothness of her face and hair that she’s AI she looks like a painting

[@inerciasart]

That's what I was thinking 😭 maybe because i'm an artist and learnt to easily tell when something is AI generated, but her hair doesn't look real (it's too blocky) and the backgrounds are very obviously fake 😭 no one can tell me the city landscapes look like real pictures

[@kateginger]

I think we have gotten so used to filters and Photoshop to the point we can't tell the difference.

[@uniquenewyork3325]

​@@kateginger women and men who know actual women can 🤷🏾

[@anonymously6866]

@@inerciasart her body type kept changing too, also her hair lines kept changing, I'm sure one of the photos randomly had a belly button piercing, she doesn't even look right sometimes too lol (her hair was and her jewlery looks goofy sometimes).

[@michellechair]

​@@anonymously6866 the lighting on her hair, neck, and decolletage always looks very strange and harsh. it's overly airbrushed and the formation of her 'muscles' appears abnormal and inconsistent

[@abandoned__]

love that not only is AI taking peoples jobs its now also contributing to our awful and unrealistic body image issues !! i love technology!!!

[@supermergentroid444]

yayy 😭

[@mhail7874]

😏😔

[@alexbrown8900]

I mean we edit real people to look like this this for ages. Doesn't make a difference

[@kstars101]

Well said! Now maybe people will put down the hohos and get off the couch, but I doubt it. ​@alexbrown8900

[@abandoned__]

@@alexbrown8900 oh, right, because we love real people also contributing to unrealistic body image expectations

[@ThaMassDebater]

The sad thing is that most of the images we have seen in magazines and now on socials have never been "real" and have always been altered.

[@tonyblake7569]

Reminds me of the movie Simone. A movie director uses an AI character to make a movie, he was afraid everyone would hate it and realize she wasn't real. No one knew she was fake, won multiple awards, and became the most famous actress. People claimed to know her irl because they wanted the attention.

[@EverlastGX]

People are not ready for the AI era. This going to affect everything and society deeply.

[@bestdjaf7499]

I am totally ready. I want to get rid of the useless jobs, & cut the taxes. And don't let me start on the gender wars. I would trade 99% woman for an AI girl.

[@nateb9917]

It's already happening from the Trans 🤣🤣🤣

[@GodIsLove1John416]

Clearly no one watched or paid attention to Terminator... If those gaining profit from AI actually does something great with the money to help humanity as a whole; like give houseless people homes and recovery programs, helping orphans and widows then I'm glad at least it wasn't for the love of mammon (the spirit behind greed); otherwise it's praying on people.

[@MB_Ghostie]

We already live in the Matrix 🤷‍♀️

[@Dmode-pq6gf]

🤯

[@clearlynotchloe]

CAN WE GET AI TO REPLACE PHYSICALLY TAXING MANUAL LABOR JOBS THAT PEOPLE DONT WANT? AND NOT THE JOBS PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO

[@katlynegarvey6185]

THIS

[@bartikaghosh]

Some people need those taxing manual jobs for multiple reasons such as economic conditions. I don't think AI should be taking over anyone's job. It'll be like the Industrial Revolution with the machines.

[@rachelbachel2]

Many people need those jobs. So many people have already lost their jobs to robots. Look what's happened to Detroit since the car manufacturers all left. You're talking about taking away more jobs from the lower socioeconomic classes. Many middle class jobs are also now obsolete. Be careful what you wish for. You have no idea the serious harm that will bring

[@samoyedhugger]

That’s the worst idea ever, if ai replace jobs that people need because they’re not qualified for other jobs or other professions are full. What will they do then?

[@kapon1845]

oh ok. so when people enjoy something you dont you call it physically taxing unenjoyable instead of just asking them for their opinion. you dont get to dictate that. artists and novelists are hypocritical. you dont get to decide who loses their job because you find it unenjoyable.

[@troyforce2]

Notice how she’s in shape.😂

[@singingway]

The thing about an AI woman -- She disappears when there's no electricity.

[@ilyqt]

It's weird to me, because she LOOKS like AI. We can't really let this company gaslight us into thinking she looks real..

[@anm8001]

It gets even weirder. The comments are filled with other ai influencer profiles. Like so many

[@jonagreen7323]

There is a video on this about Facebook, basically bots posting ai images then 1000s of bots replying 😅

[@husnaliyana8393]

​@@jonagreen7323 "social media, by AIs to AIs" sounds kinda funny imagining it

[@sharqane]

"She could pass as real." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davisgeorge7926]

We don't need influencers whether AI or Human. All we need is some good old Internet.

[@alexp7274]

We're officially screwed. Happened a lot sooner than anyone would have thought.

[@supers0nic77]

Skynet

[@therationalistparty9742]

No women are screwed because theyre loosing their power to destroy men.

[@nickieglazer7065]

​@@supers0nic77At least they're some of us that know 👁️

[@anaximanderofapollonia9842]

We were UNofficially screwed with the invention of the birth control pill, after which "the sexual revolution" happened. This is just a logical extension of that, combined with social media. Because, you can "sell sex" only and only when there are "no consequences" (= no procreation) to consuming it.

[@kurrvicc5072]

Damn. Yup. Doomed.

[@jennahorner9356]

If humans stopped using filters online, this would never pass as a real human

[@sodium303]

if women covered up, AI would have much less to learn from and work with

[@Confused627]

​@@sodium303 if people stopped trying to make ai people this wouldnt happen.

[@ixagonczi]

​@@sodium303Same goes for men

[@MostLovelyArchitect]

​@sodium303 This makes no sense. If women covered up, then AI would just learn from those images of covered up women and create pictures of covered up women. AI doesn't learn how women look like from their naked bodies. It learns from popular images of women.

[@mostlywholesome]

​@@sodium303 bait used to be believable

[@danielhammond3218]

I am glad this is happening. Maybe they will replace those only fans models. Make them go out and get a real job.

[@echezonaukachukwu1132]

She said "ass shots" - The Angela White formerly known as 'two-continent names,' Black Chyna.

[@madelinejane7746]

How could anyone think this is a good idea? Where already suffering by comparing ourselves to eachother now the standard of beauty is going to be actual computer generated version of what we all "should" look like. I swear everyday I get closer and closer to throwing my phone in the ocean and buying a bunker. Lol

[@tobe-you-tube6612]

Yes, there are better looking women out there and will always be. The same way there is always someone better. If it makes you depressed, the problem is your self confidence not their look.

[@mostlywholesome]

I believe it's a good change. People will now know that the models are indeed fake and will learn to accept that their features are heavily exaggerated. Furthermore, models have been tortured for so long. Strict diets, eating disorders, hours of putting on makeup, never getting to have privacy ever. It's better this way.

[@NyehNyeh12]

​​@@tobe-you-tube6612 Of course beautiful women exist. But making extreme beauty the standard is the problem. By making literally FAKE ai women influencers is the worst thing ever for mental health of young girls who think they need to look like a literal flawlessly fake woman to be considered beautiful. Ofc, they odnt need to be. Thats common sense. But insecurity doesnt know common sense. You cannot blame the person thats insecure, thats ridiculous. Insecurity comes from unrealistic standards and unrealistic standards come from people that make them up. NOT the person who feels insecure because of them. Not everyone can jsut switch off their feelings, in fact most people cant.

[@SillyGooseGracie]

I feel the exact same way. This also just takes money away from real influencers, which, while I don’t really feel bad for them, is just another example of AI taking jobs

[@user-og7qq5zy8p]

Because the people who think this is a good idea don't care about that!!

[@Steviejustine824]

They even added her roots while simultaneously fading the pink in her hair. As if it was freshly dyed at one point and then grew out and faded over time. Crazy.

[@anthonycraig274]

I don’t care that she is not real, there are women out there that’s close enough.

[@CalindaCat1215]

I have a prediction that this will trend for a while, ridiculously perfect ai art, but then the tides will turn with trends of using more “real” looking people than we’ve ever really seen in mainstream advertising. This look will become seen as “cheap” because we know how it was made and using real models who do not have the ai-trained look (ai women are almost all very similar in appearance) and using models with more unique face shapes and body shapes, maybe even more texture, will become the “high-end” look, because these are the companies using real models

[@Iron678Maiden]

Influencers already post pictures that are edited and don’t look like them in real life so it’s not much different to see another impossibly beautiful person. I just think they should be required to disclose that it’s AI if they try to pass it for real I think that is messed up

[@Tenly2009]

How much digital manipulation/how many filters can a “real” person apply to their own images before it is also no longer considered “real”? 🙄. Seems like an unnecessary distinction to require a disclosure that one is 100% fake and the other is only 60% fake.

[@KkevrockK]

You almost got there, the very person that posted this story is basically doing what she’s decrying.

[@yvonnecortes_]

This is what i was thinking too. Weve already been influenced for years by overly edited and fake people who post unrealistic or staged lives anyway.

[@Sanguinarius9999]

We have always been editing images of ourselves, even kings and queens portraits and 1st ever photographs.

[@emha1368]

The agency name “the clueless” is freaking perfect 😂

[@leighirvine]

😂😂😂😂

[@florindaflosen8845]

And AI-tana Lopez the name of the "Model".😅

[@joshchavez8190]

Plot twist: the girl narrating this video, is also not real. This is a video I asked AI to make for me.

[@jowizo8773]

Huh?😂

[@stephanieg3554]

You correct it can mess humans up... mentally emotionally financially spiritually psychologically and physically

[@ae744]

Hilarious how we went backwards. Vogue and cataloges once used drawings to sell clothes and other goods.

[@Raan33]

And even so.. at least those were drawings made by people with artistry and talent that got paid... here is all artificial and lacks humanity, all just profit for the company

[@BillSmith-fx7xx]

I would say it is exactly the same outcome. Just accomplished using a different set of tools. 😊

[@BillSmith-fx7xx]

". . . we went backwards." Good point, great observation ! 😊

[@smania7575]

​@@Raan33Do you not understand the knowledge, skill, and talent that goes into creating AI? You need to understand the code, develop the code, fix the code when needed, update the code as new information comes out, and probably more. That is skill and talent. It's just different from what most people see as skill and talent. And anyone who is upset by AI taking real people's jobs should be upset that they're using the products that led us here. New tech over the years is how this happened. The smart phone propelled us forward so fast, so anyone who uses a smart phone and complains about AI is an ignorant of their contribution to this new world.

[@SnakeWasRight]

Humanity is about to enter its fever dream phase

[@learabee]

Methinks we already entered it😂

[@user-pm3ul5tr2p]

​@learabee These are only the preliminary hallucinations alice saw while still falling down the rabbit hole We haven't even fully entered underland yet

[@12137Marth]

Most women were already convinced to get fake nails, fake eyelashes, fake tans, fake hair or colored hair, chemicals, injections, operations and excessive makeup--anything to not look real but "better", or more beautiful or confident or accepting of "ourselves". We're already living in a fever dream 😞

[@suzannapaige3859]

Oh girl, that already came & went…

[@badrequest5596]

we're already there xD

[@pabrodi]

The knee jerk against AI doing this type of work isn't it. The modeling industry employs teenagers and young adult women and makes them go through the worst humiliation imaginable. They make them sick so they look better on pictures. If anything, using AI for this is an advancement.

[@leoniemelodie7]

Let's gooooo, more unrealistic beauty expectations...

[@cesar6447]

Maybe you should stop comparing your body to ai generated images

[@leoniemelodie7]

@@cesar6447 It's not me. It doesn't matter if I compare myself to others women or not, those expectations are put on me anyways... Comments made by parents, men, people in general... Thinking you can escape it is foolish. You can choose not to care - it doesn't mean it still doesn't get to you someway.

[@Ryan-cb1ei]

It’s AI, it’s just taking what already exists. And of course it’s going to look unrealistic with airbrushed skin and such, it’s basically a mesh of reconstructed artwork, it probably doesn’t even know of our “imperfections” in our skin and looks

[@leoniemelodie7]

@@Ryan-cb1ei Yeah... I've got nothing against AI in itself... I'm just wary of influencer or model AIs... The whole point of these human "celebrities" is to some somehow relate to them so you can aspire to be somewhat like them... (Maybe it's not... Or I'm not saying it well). With AIs it feels a like expecting something impossible out of people. Like expecting cartoon physics in real life, expecting a whale to look like a dolphin... It's just not "applicable". Attractiveness is about looks but also character. An AI has no character (unless it's taught one) and its looks only mimic humans'. So it's all just weird to me.

[@PBthesquirrel]

100%!! Exactly what I thought. I'm guessing that's what the YTer meant when she said, "I have a lot to say about how this type of digital manipulation can affect actual human beings."

[@sarahm.1632]

This is just virtual, wait until they make humanoid AI women/robots. This will really be chilling.

[@carolynparker6629]

Oh, they have them. I saw them on the history channel. They were literally sex robots. They're creepy. They don't look completely realistic yet, but it won't be long.

[@supers0nic77]

Can you get one without feminism.exe?

[@remington910]

Reminds me of all the sci-fi movies that have basically been warning people for decades... terminator and the Battlestar galactica reboot (human model cylons) amd the spin off "Caprica"...

[@kiowah231]

@@carolynparker6629 Hopefully men would leave us alone then. Maybe that will lower the murder and abuse rates

[@naurekk]

They already have these. I saw a documentary years ago about a man "married" to a few of his real dolls

[@wassermelonification]

I'd rather be influenced by artificial intelligence than natural stupidity

[@HisLilyPrincess]

From a marketing perspective, this was genius. Creating something from nothing and selling it as a desirable, but limited product.

[@Starkardur]

a lot of people online don't know what photoshop or airbrushing or filters are. They actually think people look this way in real life. It's scary and sad.

[@LindyandDevin]

I love this idea as a former model, the modelling industry is a cesspool of disgusting people who take advantage of beautiful young girls. The photos, hardly depicts a healthy human to begin with so taking the human out of the photo you no longer have the expectation of achieving that look because you know it’s not real rather than having a real girl who’s been photo shopped, and starve to death and had plastic surgery selling something

[@rinishan]

Interesting take. Maybe this is better than modelling, especially when it comes to having teenagers sign under an agency, but this will also take jobs away from independent influencers. I'm not sure we want to be comparing ourselves to fictional people either. Using women's bodies and existing photos to curate a perfect image of a woman so that they no longer need to pay women for exploiting their bodies also sounds depressing. Capitalism sucks.

[@StevenCavanaugh]

Thank you! These idiots in the comment section who think modeling is a good job and not an abuse factory is infuriating.

[@Emmicuda]

I totally agree. I'm sure some people like modeling but it can't promote unrealistic standards if you know it's fake, unlike real people who use filters and effect to appear unrealistic.

[@1Psalmaday]

Young women and men can go on to get productive jobs that benefit society rather than one that is detrimental.

[@zacharybosley1935]

​@@1Psalmaday is modeling detrimental to society?

[@almeidareis]

If beauty industry wasn't toxic enough...lets make the standards artificial and literary impossible to acheive as they are not real

[@mr-boo]

don't chase after standards, just be the best version of you.

[@jamessmith785]

Its smart from a business perspective because you don't have to worry about the AI saying something that doesn't represent the values of the companies they partner with. This thing has no political opinions or worldviews that others would boycott the companies they are influencing for.

[@thomasb5898]

Unrealistic beauty standards on another level now. 🙃

[@nathangrey6236]

That's not even the half unrealistic AI can make

[@Colton-wz5sh]

Theres nothing unrealistic about that body shape

[@berserkagain7976]

​@@Colton-wz5shis in gaming culture but has a 15in waist but also abs, nearly no arms though, no pores full face but skinny neck. Looking at heavily edited pictures has proven to affect how males look at women by a margin so they think completly unrealistic things like this can be "totally real"

[@VixxxenThoughts]

@@berserkagain7976heavy on the no pores but hey people expect everyone to look the same now just wait and see how it’ll be in the next 20 or so years

[@courtneypennington4613]

When they said that one day robots will take our jobs.. This is not what i was expecting..

[@MangoMonster34]

Every single one can be replaced and they’ll make sure it happens sooner rather than later.

[@EdvardBocMunch]

Yes AI needs to do things to sustain us and our environment. While we continue to create. There is no rush to create art and movies and other distractions with AI. There is a rush to save the environment, advance science, and reduce suffering. AI is giving us mental suffering as we fear losing our jobs. Not creating art

[@MistressHorrors]

I'm calling Noah. It's time for the boat. No AI pairs allowed.

[@Punipunpi_panda]

As a model this makes me worried about if they will take over our jobs

[@jonagreen7323]

They will, ai is going to eventually learn how to do most jobs so most of us including myself will probably be out of a job. There will probably be some real bad years, some rioting etc until universal basic income is increased so people can live off it since most of us will be unemployed. But it could be a few years or decades until that happens.

[@borincod]

just learn already to do smth... AI or not AI, modeling is only for young women after all - you can't rely on this forever

[@MeredithDomzalski]

​@@jonagreen7323Yeah, some scary stuff is coming. I'm not usually one who's alarmist about stuff like this, but it's going to get real bad a lot sooner than people are expecting.

[@IndigoMystik]

We are in for a wild dystopian ride if we don't makes some big changes, and fast...like, yesterday.

[@tobyjoseph3752]

WE'VE BEEN WARNED BY MANY BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES ABOUT THIS REPLACING AND TAKING OVER. BUT WE STILL GO AHEAD

[@priscillajimenez27]

Reminds me of Pixel Perfect the movie. Lead singer was basically a hologram of a girl. The guitarist girl was getting jealous of her and even wanted to hit her when she started picking up a personality. The other band members were chill with her. The manager, friend, and creator of the hologram girl Loretta started to forget she wasn't real and was falling for her.

[@amarilismelendez7878]

Maybe AI Influencers should be taxed like businesses, pump that money back into the economy.

[@ajohndaeal-asad6731]

that’s like giving someone a bandaid who haas cancer

[@erikblomqvist8325]

How do you think it works?! The AI is owned by a business that is taxed like a business. It's not like owning an AI makes you exempt from tax and AIs are not their own legal entities (yet anyway). You could have an AI help you with tax evasion, but that's a completely different story.

[@John7No]

they do get taxed. you know the person or company behind that AI, yes they get taxed for any deal/money it makes

[@martinandersen1351]

Being self-centered is not a virtue or something we should strive for...

[@Robert.hodgson]

This is already and has been happening more often than people think. We’ve been designing “ambassadors” for a few years now and I know a few firms who have been doing it longer than us!

[@WallKenshiro]

After months of seeing AI images it's becoming increasingly easy to spot them for what they are, and "her's" are some of the least convincing I've seen in recent times. Sometimes suckers are as willing as they are deserving to lose their money on b.s.

[@Tuakie]

This reminds me of a piece by Suli Breaks when he talks about the hypocrisy of human society, saying that it "sells products that promote natural hair, looks, and smooth complexion with the model on the box half photoshoped with fake eyelashes and hair extensions" (I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate). I'm not opposed to companies utilizing AI, because I know how bad they will want to with this growing tool and it's not like we haven't been working towards this with photoshop anyhow; but, there should be a compromise about what they can sell and look like. This ai girl didn't even have cellulite in any of these pictures (and I would hazard a guess she doesn't have any "unappealing" features in any of their photos).

[@fraumartha4184]

Even real models try real hard not to get cellulite. Not all women have it. Not all, despite people trying to convince themself the opposite. People who work with their looks have to, must appear near perfect. And any unattractive features will be photoshoped for the sake of the beautiful picture of the model. Comes from a woman, for the record. Who knows things about modeling, cause my ex is doing it professionally in all branches.

[@ImARealCat]

​@@fraumartha4184the idea as cellulite as something to be reviled was published in a 1968 issue of Vogue as a way to sell a "cure" for a problem that doesn't exist. Between 80-90% of women have cellulite. Hell, I was barely 100 pounds at 5'4 and I had cellulite and strechmarks. It's sad that we compare ourselves to models who's literally job it is to be beautiful and who probably don't even look like that irl because of lighting, hair, make up, Photoshop, ect. And now there's an actual fake perfect person... I'm so glad I'm no longer a teenager but I weep for our young people.

[@tatianadelgado4867]

Most women have it, it is kind of natural unfortunately. But I agree, models don't have to have/show celulite... My problem is more that she is not real rather than she being "perfect" lol ​@@fraumartha4184

[@MrColdwilliam]

As someone who works in the field. You have LONG BEEN influenced by AI. This i promise you.

[@namilegilego6772]

When did it start?

[@SoulSpaUniversity]

She’s somehow different looking in each photo

[@Planeet-Long]

This democratises beauty, now you don't need to have been born beautiful, you just need the skills to design beautiful.

[@jsmit9161]

We are ready to ditch technology and start living life with friends and family again.

[@namilegilego6772]

I don't think so. We lack the basic values and civility

[@kozmosius]

sure. sell your car, house, and all your belongings and wear deerskins in a mud hut and hunt with a pointy stick.

[@jsmit9161]

@@kozmosius well I must say I am pretty close to that 😂 I don't mean ditch literally, but technology should serve us, not the other way around. And the more we live in a digital world, the more depression and unhappy people.

[@Bulmachan224]

Im going to stop going on the Internet, watching movies, and youtube soon. I just cant get behind AI taking over human spots.

[@elyen1151]

She's perfect. And she looks very realistic. There are actually plenty of women who look that way(at least where i am living) They are not AIs, they are just beautiful

[@walterbackgammon8436]

Ya best start believin’ in cyber punk dystopias Miss Turner; you’re in one.

[@daddytabasco2217]

Technology is meant to improve lives through reducing the time it takes to complete a task or making dangerous tasks safer because they're done by machinery. Companies are utilizing AI just so they don't have to pay real people to do a job. If only our Congress wasn't made up of 80 yr old men & women that say shit like - "We're going to make TikTok better. Tick tack toe, a winner" - we could actually legislate this milestone in technological development.

[@kubachiglow41]

The main issue I have with this is the unrealistic standard it will set for beauty. I’m already beginning to see more and more people use makeup or surgery to obtain more “animation-like” appearances. I fear that having AI models will influence incredibly unrealistic standards that push people to try to obtain unobtainable, unnatural ‘beauty’ and not value their own beauty

[@PiNKUZi]

Calling all 90s kids who remembers the 2002 movie Simone? This is too wild!!

[@rebeccapiotter1077]

She is real! She is a reflection of our desires.

[@johanaantonova740]

All of this is actually very disturbing

[@TheTristhen]

Why?

[@ohhello6427]

​@@TheTristhen the fact that some REAL models dedicate their lives to their job, to the point of sacrificing their health to fit their company's standard of what is considered 'good looking', and then get paid way less than what they should. with the introduction of ai models, these real ones are left without a job. ai models are an insult to the real ones.

[@adish1401]

​@@TheTristhen because this is literally fake advertising???

[@TheTristhen]

@@adish1401 You mean like all advertisement. What i want to say is real or not the peoples you see in commercials are actors.

[@adish1401]

@@TheTristhen Do you even comprehend what the purpose of an actor is?

[@ih3artgh0stf4ce]

Me personally, i just got out of school last year and the amount of students who struggle with self perception and poor eating habits was insane. It’s so normalized too I just hope that if these end up trending that it doesn’t affect younger people

[@learabee]

😢the thought of where it could go with your comment in mind… very disturbing. I remember feeling very triggered as a kid with an eating disorder, just by the mannequins and such. Never felt my feelings about it meant anything but this kind of feels like it’s in the same vein. Just worried for those who struggle with such things as body dysmorphia and even those with normal insecurities! We are humans so… the use of AI for “modeling” makes sense but it’s totally backwards

[@onidaaitsubasa4177]

I won't be really satisfied until I see her talking in an interview about her modeling career, even if she's only speaking Espanol and not English.

[@klickingkayasmr7585]

“Are we ready to be influenced by AI?” Dude, we’ve already been for a while now…

[@venkyratnam]

One advantage of this would be OF going down.

[@potmki6601]

Future historians would have so much work not just deconstructing real people form their, often distorted, web presence, but figuring out what web presence had no real person behind it

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

Meta data will probably help with that.

[@10ThousandPatentMission]

What a sham of a World. There’s no accountability because those in charge are making money off it or are oblivious and shouldn’t be leader.

[@AmanoJack]

They said photography would be the end of "real" art....

[@Roothedog]

Way more concerned people aren’t able to tell it’s AI, it’s very obvious to me but I’m sure some people just aren’t looking close enough - scary

[@totally_a_real_account7902]

It really doesn’t matter if we’re ready, if it’s making someone money then they’re going to make more.

[@Stinkwolff83]

So hopeless, and so horrible. So disgusting and so so very true. ❤

[@PBthesquirrel]

Absolutely true. The capitalist show must go on!

[@Ariayil98]

Companies will probably want more robots cause they don't need rest, to be paid, don't need retirement money, and won't have health problems 🥲 I think I was born on the wrong generation..

[@Abdullah_Chill]

Can all the AI loving people congregate in one place so that when the AI machines eventually turn on them, like in every movie, they will be the one affected first. If you didn’t tell me she was fake, I would not have known. The potential for this is scary.

[@victoriavonheals2384]

No. No, we're not ready. We're very NOT ready. We're insane for reaching this point in time where AI is now replacing human writers, musicians, artists, models, and influencers. Maybe even teachers. This could very easily get out of hand when we start relying on ai for everything, including creativity and critical thinking.

[@bbyhailz]

I’m not gonna lie this deeply upsets me

[@kimberlyjones8152]

Same here

[@MegaMonsterhighrocks]

Thats so crazy especially when most models are so underpaid and we just started to see a trend towards more authentic modelling pan out.

[@trevorsartwork]

It’s not like influencers weren’t fake to begin with

[@spindoctor6385]

Just because somebody or some thing is labelled as an "influencer" does not mean that you should be influenced by it. It is a picture on a screen, if that influences you, then you are not paying attention to reality.

[@jimineilpavimento]

There are already really high standards to give people insecurities. We don’t need ai models.