Comment on A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month

• EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I get that this is kind of a joke, but we already have a problem with these models/influencers projecting unrealistic beauty ideals and pretending to lead these unrealistic lives, and it’s causing major issues already. If companies can basically craft exactly what they want, I can see it being orders or magnitude worse.

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  • Mahlzeit@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The point of the joke is that it makes no difference if a persona is fake or “real”. I think the issues you raise are real. But it makes no difference to unrealistic beauty standards whether artists alter an existing human body or make one up wholesale. If anything, it’s more benign if people rationally know that it is all a fantasy.

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    • EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But it makes no difference to unrealistic beauty standards whether artists alter an existing human body or make one up wholesale.

      This is what I’m not so sure about, as in the completely crafted one can do anything at any time with almost zero effort. They don’t age. They don’t have any imperfections. There’s no risk (?) of them ever going off the rails. Even tho the influences project an fake front, you can still be them, as they are real. If something isn’t even real, you could create things that could never possibly exist.

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      • Mahlzeit@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They have all the imperfections that the artists want them to have. They age as much or as little as they are made to. That’s not so different from human celebrity personas. Sometimes we get a Paparazzi photo, showing how they really look, but is that occasional reality check so different from rationally knowing that it is all fantasy?

        (I say “rationally knowing” because one criticism of unrealistic beauty is that it may be shifting our unconscious knowledge of what is normal. If that is true, then rational knowledge is not helpful.)

        Even tho the influences project an fake front, you can still be them, as they are real.

        I think this goes to the heart of the argument. I don’t think that is good.

        Influencers (and other celebrities) typically portray themselves as being happy and well-adjusted, living exciting and fulfilling lives; all while being surrounded by luxury products with generous marketing departments. I don’t think that the idea that you could actually be such a person is psychologically beneficial to anyone (except those brands, obvs).

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  • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the issue is that they have a problem with it for the wrong reasons and fixing it for the wrong people. So the influencer issue is lying to scam people and editing their images leading and young people to expect unrealistic appearances. And the model issue is they need to be paid to live.

    So here’s an AI to look unrealistic to lie and scam people and produce unrealistic standards whom you can’t date anyways. But hey, it doesn’t need to be paid to live.

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• CertifiedBlackGuy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Speak for yourself, my best friend gave me a copy of the source code ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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  • 1847953620@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    brown chicken brown coww

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• lloram239@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Warning! You will never be in a relationship with this model.

  It’s AI generated, there is a good chance of them selling relationship-as-a-service in the near future. In a way, your chances with an AI model are way bigger than with a real one.

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You should assume that even if the woman were real… they don’t owe you a date, relationship, their time then either.

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