Warnings over AI and toxic beauty myths dog TikTok's Bold Glamour filter – France 24

/ Live news Issued on: 10/03/2023 – 03:22Modified: 10/03/2023 – 03:35 Bold Glamour convincingly blends a user’s real face with an AI-generated ideal of a supermodel, drawing both laughs and alarm © STAFF / AFP Washington (AFP) – TikTok’s latest sensation is a real-time filter called Bold Glamour that sashays right past debates over toxic beauty standards on social media, going all in on giving users a new face. Quietly released to the app’s more than a billion users, Bold Glamour convincingly blends a user’s real face with an AI-generated ideal of a supermodel, drawing both laughs and alarm.Millions of posts on TikTok capture the shock at Bold Glamour’s superpowers, with users marveling at their plumped up lips, well-chiseled chin and fluffy eyebrows worthy of a fashionista.”It’s the new onslaught of the ‘beauty myth’,” said Kim Johnson, associate professor of nursing at Middle Georgia State University in the United States.Effects like Bold Glamour “lead to unhealthy behaviors such as excessive dieting, comparison, and low self-esteem,” Johnson said.Filters and effects have been a stalwart of TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat for years, but the latest generation of features like Bold Glamour are supercharged.”It is not subtle. It is instantaneous. It is powerful,”
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