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TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter

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207 points ZephyrBlu | 1 comments | 27 Feb 23 03:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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alanfranz ◴[27 Feb 23 05:09 UTC] No.34953221[source]▶
My 2c: it’s the beginning of the end for some tech areas. Especially social networks.

You chat with people online because you think, you know, that people exist on the other side.

You spend time on instagram, tiktok, and so, to get a glimpse of real people (as opposed to TV where a lot is fiction/sfx).

You trust photos because, barring dedicated, time-consuming and skill-intensive editing, they should represent reality.

If that’s not true anymore, and everything is fiction, it’s probably time to get back to IRL experiences.

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beau_g ◴[27 Feb 23 05:34 UTC] No.34953380[source]▶
All of those things have had extremely perverse incentives leading people to be dishonest for a long time, long before the internet in the case of photo/video (see Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch video). I don't see how AI tools have much impact. Most people knew this about AOL chatrooms in 1996. Does anyone actually think internet interactions are mostly authentic, or are you speaking on behalf of some imaginary clueless person?
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1. AnthonyMouse ◴[27 Feb 23 06:35 UTC] No.34953714[source]▶
The incentive was always there but now the cost is lower.

There have always been models and airbrushed photos, but most people quickly learn that Emily Ratajkowski is not going to return their texts and move on to real live human beings in their own cohort.

Now you make every average person into a model but only on TikTok, what happens? Probably more time spent on TikTok instead of face to face interactions with local people, at a minimum.

What happens to teenage girls when they see not just models but all their classmates rendered pretty by the machine and then compare their own reflection in the bathroom mirror?

Making deleterious things cheaper isn't great.