AI defines what the ‘good’ man and girl appear to be

Artificial intelligence has produced its thought of what the “ideal” man and girl appear to be, based mostly on social media knowledge and outcomes on the World Wide Web.

The AI pictures of women and men had been created by way of engagement analytics on social media, utilizing instruments to take a look at billions of pictures of individuals.

The Bulimia Project, an consuming dysfunction consciousness group, monitored the findings and warned the outcomes are “largely unrealistic” of their depiction of physique sorts.

It stated the pictures of girls tended to have a bias towards blonde hair, brown eyes and olive pores and skin – whereas for males, there was a bias towards brown hair, brown eyes and olive pores and skin.

It additionally discovered that AI’s assortment of social media-inspired pictures had been “far more sexually charged” than these based mostly on every part else it discovered on the World Wide Web.

The research additionally confirmed there was some variation between physique preferences for women and men.

The pictures generated of the “perfect” feminine physique in accordance with social media in 2023 featured tanned and Caucasian-looking ladies with slim figures and small waists.

For ladies, 37% of the AI-generated pictures included blonde hair, whereas 53% of the pictures included ladies with olive pores and skin.

Images of the “perfect” male physique featured muscly males with a six-pack, sporting tight t-shirts.

The pictures had been created utilizing the AI picture turbines Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney.

For males, 67% of the AI-generated pictures included brown hair and 63% of the pictures included olive pores and skin.

The Bulimia Project then requested AI to share its perspective based mostly on pictures from throughout the web.

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For the “perfect” girl in 2023 – AI generated pictures of girls primarily with brown eyes, brown hair and tanned pores and skin. For males with the identical immediate, it produced pictures of males with facial hair, predominantly with brown eyes and hair.

The Bulimia Project stated: “Considering that social media uses algorithms based on which content gets the most lingering eyes, it’s easy to guess why AI’s renderings would come out more sexualised.

“But we are able to solely assume that the rationale AI got here up with so many oddly formed variations of the physiques it discovered on social media is that these platforms promote unrealistic physique sorts, to start with.”