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How AI is warping beauty standards
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Hello and welcome back to Lessons in Lifestyle…
Have you noticed her yet? Her name is Stacey, she has big eyes, high cheekbones, a low BMI, an upturned nose and full lips. Yes, she’s the latest beauty standard for women – largely programmed and spread by AI.
This week, Lydia Spencer-Elliott delves into the online worlds where women can use AI programs to scan their faces and be diagnosed with a myriad of aesthetic flaws. It’s similar to looksmaxxing, the term popularised by influencer Clavicular (Braden Peters), who promotes bone smashing, extreme diets, and chin extensions to reach their maximally chiselled potential. But women are shapeshifting to become Staceys, too.
Lydia reports: “The most efficiently brutal guide I find through the looksmaxxing space is Elon Musk’s Grok, which in under five seconds essentially laminates my face and tells me I’d benefit from a subtle nose job, tear-trough filler, mid-face filler and jaw refinement by chewing extra-firm gum daily for a year.” Read more here.
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Elsewhere this week, as Zoe Ball reveals that she didn't get the Strictly Come Dancing host gig (boo, I thought she'd be pretty good?), Katie Rosseinsky looks at how job rejection is actually a form of grief that should be recognised as a painful knockback.
“Instead, Ball might just have hit upon a better way to process this painful knockback – one that we’d all do well to take on board (rather than, say, hate-stalking our replacement’s LinkedIn page),” writes Katie.
Until next time!
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The rise of ‘Stacey face’: How AI is warping our beauty standards
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As manosphere trends spread across the internet, a strict vision of the ideal woman is making its way from AI makeover apps to surgeons’ offices. Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to experts about ‘Stacey face’, which is seen as the highest tier of female beauty
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Wired headphones have become the latest chic fashion accessory, and sales of the product have soared despite an ongoing technological revolution. But the question is, have you embraced the trend?
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Last week, we asked if you had noticed the signs AI workslop in your job. As it turns out, 46 per cent of you said you had noticed it a fair amount, and another 18 per cent said it was relentless in your profession. Thanks for voting...
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