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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: 0.284s | source
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hn_throwaway_99 ◴[27 Feb 23 04:33 UTC] No.34952982[source]▶
Wow, I am so glad I'm not the parent of a teenage girl right now.

At the same time, I wonder if perfect filters like this might actually result in people rejecting beauty standards like this. I mean, if everyone can easily look this good online, if people start to think that it's impossible to determine the veracity of anything that wasn't done face-to-face, maybe people will just start rejecting it. Kind of like how I never answer my phone anymore from numbers I don't know because there is a 95%+ chance it's spam/phishing/etc.

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1. throwaway64643 ◴[27 Feb 23 09:51 UTC] No.34954661[source]▶
After playing with AI generated human photos for a while, now I've come to appreciate (little edited) real photos and people in real life much more than before. I love the flaws, the imperfections, the characteristics, the deviations that make each one of us unique. The AI is so good at creating the 'perfect average' that makes it so boring, monotonous, and tedious. People call it 'soulless'. But when it comes to variation, it starts generating the uncanny valley. It fails hard.