AI created the image of the ‘perfect’ man and the ‘perfect’ woman
Getting data from social media
Another creation of artificial intelligence that will be discussed is that of The Bulimia Project . Thanks to AI, the image of the “perfect” man and the “perfect” woman was created , thanks to data from various social networks and the ability to “look” at billions of images of people on the Internet.
This experiment by The Bulimia Project reports that the image of women tends towards certain characteristics such as blonde hair, brown eyes and pale skin. He said AI images inspired by social networks tend to be ” more sexually charged “. Of the images produced, 37% of the women were depicted with blonde hair and 53% with smooth skin.
In contrast, the “perfect” man was depicted as fully fit, with muscles and abs in 67% of the AI images, and with dark hair and smooth skin in 63%. The images you will see below were created using the AI models of Midjourney, DALL -E 2 and Stable Diffusion .
See AI’s images of the “perfect” man and the “perfect” woman
The findings of this research wanted to show that the body types depicted are ” largely unrealistic “, adding that they are biased towards certain characteristics, naturally due to data from social media. The Bulimia Project is an eating disorder awareness group.
” Considering that social media uses algorithms based on which content gets the most lingering looks, it’s easy to guess why AI depictions would come out more sexualized. But we can only assume that the reason AI came up with so many A lot of the weird body types she’s found on social media are because those platforms promote unrealistic body types in the first place.” states the Bulimia Project in its conclusion.
