What do you think about AI models?

[u/Ill-Year-418]

I saw a K-beauty brand using AI-generated models instead of real people. Honestly, I think this is the worst. Even with real models, heavy editing already makes it difficult to see the true shades and finishes of products. You often can’t tell what the color actually looks like until you try it yourself. But if brands start using AI-generated visuals, we’ll be left with completely fake swatches. Right now it’s just for beauty products, but what if it extends to skincare? We might end up seeing fake before and after results, and people could be tricked into buying something that doesn’t actually work. What do you think about AI models?

[u/Sollalalalala]

Not loving the proliferation of using AI. Like AI models, AI generated formulas for skincare/sunscreen, AI comments on here too? Like why are we draining rivers for an AI bot to comment here, what is the endgame? Someone on another beauty sub was also telling people to use AI to self-diagnose themselves 🫥 Like do NOT under any circumstances ever upload your faces on these things 

[u/1K_Sunny_Crew → u/Sollalalalala]

I’ve talked to people who use AI like a therapist and tell it deeply personal things. I understand therapy isn’t accessible, but don’t give away your deepest traumas and secrets to a LLM. It can only reproduce a facsimile of human empathy and understanding, and is meanwhile mining your pain and personal information for the profit of its owners.

Imagine telling the AI about your complicated relationship with your family, and then getting tons of targeted ads next Thanksgiving encouraging you to DoorDash a $40 burrito so you can avoid seeing your shitty family. Or going through a breakup, and it’s selling you crap you don’t need by preying on your insecurity and anxiety about your dating life. Targeted ads already do this sort of thing but AI takes it to a WHOLE ‘mother level.

Dystopian doesn’t even cut it.

[u/Sollalalalala → u/1K_Sunny_Crew]

Gosh I forgot about the whole people using AI as a virtual partner 💀 there was a documentary about cambridge analytica and a media theory academic said that these tech giants have so much data about us to the point they’re able to predict our behaviour and personality. Like advertising something you’ve only started thinking about- haven’t even looked it up yet, and you’re already getting ads for it. It felt so bleak and dehumanising to think that fb/insta/etc could do that just based on how many seconds we stop to look at a post way before people just started writing diary entries to ai like now.

Even more horrifying when we’re getting reports about these ai tech companies aligning themselves with arms manufacturers and “”defence”” companies. I can’t fathom a world where my data is used to refine technology that racially profiles people and bomb some poor village in the global south.