This is like a black hole of stupid. Everyone involved (participants, observers, and whiners) should feel such deep and incredible shame that any of us had to read this headline.
First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards
Submitted 9 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
https://arstechnica.com/?p=2036414
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Letstakealook@lemm.ee 9 months ago
dumbass@leminal.space 9 months ago
Well they were trained on the mainstream media’s pushing of unrealistic beauty standards…
MagicShel@programming.dev 9 months ago
None of this makes any sense to me. I’m not defending any part of it, but I also don’t really understand the bits about objectifying women (the AI is literally an object and it can’t be anything else) or pushing impossible beauty standards on women - these are drawings. Why would a girl feel pressured to look as good as an image that doesn’t have actual bones or organs or skin pores - not even fucking gravity.
But that confusion aside, this is just the stupidest thing ever. There is no artistry. There is no, you know, working to stay in shape or applying makeup just so. It’s all a bunch of fake stupidity and I can’t understand why anyone would care at all about this, much less deign to critique it from a feminist perspective. It doesn’t seem worthy of spending the time analyzing it to that degree.
Of course I’ve just wasted two paragraphs of my life on it so I guess I shouldn’t cast stones.
Kissaki@beehaw.org 9 months ago
There is no artistry. […] It’s all a bunch of fake stupidity and I can’t understand why anyone would care at all about this, much less deign to critique it from a feminist perspective. It doesn’t seem worthy of spending the time analyzing it to that degree.
I really don’t get this take.
If they’re crafting prompts and iterations they are crafting. If they’re crafting them according to artistic concerns on the output, there’s artistry.
It’s a different kind. But I don’t see why it would be immediately disqualified just because it’s something different.
It’s much closer to creative/producing arts than it is to classic beauty pageants.
MagicShel@programming.dev 9 months ago
I don’t care that they did this. I just can’t see why anyone would pay attention.
Kissaki@beehaw.org 9 months ago
Why would a girl feel pressured to look as good as an image that doesn’t have actual bones or organs or skin pores - not even fucking gravity.
If you can interpret it as an image of a woman then there is correlation. What they are sourced from doesn’t make a difference.
Do you think photoshopped images or makeup also don’t change perception and consequently influence beauty standards? Those are also not based on the inherent physical properties of the original bodies.
MagicShel@programming.dev 9 months ago
Yeah. Had this conversation with my wife and she’s with you - emphatically.
Mothra@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Eh not that it’s crystal clear to me but the winner actually looks much more realistic in terms of what’s achievable for real humans than the runner ups. I think there is some sort of merit in the clout category, all participants already have a media presence which for better or worse means they drive some engagement. I’m not saying it has virtue though.
I take it as a silly competition. A just because you can thing.
Mambert@beehaw.org 9 months ago
As opposed to regular beauty pagents?
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s happening on a social media platform none of you has ever heard of before and will never hear of again. Calm down and move on.
ech@lemm.ee 9 months ago
They’re all on instagram and tiktok. It’s very much happening on the most popular and most used social media platforms.
Kissaki@beehaw.org 9 months ago
Lol, they added a “Location” to the winners (winner characters)
I guess it’s more about the characters than only AI-generated images.
In a CNN article titled, “The first Miss AI has been crowned — and she’s a Moroccan lifestyle influencer,” fashion journalist Jacqui Palumbo writes, "Meet Kenza Layli, a Moroccan lifestyle influencer who hopes to bring ‘diversity and inclusivity’ to the AI creator landscape.
That’s the real problem, isn’t it? Not the original character contest, with a clear setting. But others promoting the characters as if they were real people.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
What in the everloving fuck…
onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 months ago
Such a dumb article. Had no-one mentioned they were AI, lots of people would’ve been fooled and never thought about “objectifying women”. Why? Because there are millions of pictures like these online put up by millions of women themselves. There are many beauty pageants too and all the miss universe and miss whatever going on where real women participate - willingly.
Now that real women don’t have to compete and the whole thing can be faked online, it’s worse than real life? What?
millie@beehaw.org 9 months ago
Yeah! How are we expected to compete with AI beauty? Break our fingers and glue six extra ones onto our hands?
Kissaki@beehaw.org 9 months ago
I certainly didn’t expect an acceptance speech…
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 9 months ago
It’s surreal. Shame they couldn’t sync the lips properly
Fester@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This is such a wild departure from real beauty pageants, which have always been known for pushing realistic beauty standards and for making normal women feel good about their bodies.