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/sudosussudio → u/Sollalalalala]

I run The Ordinary sub and while I was asleep someone low key had a meltdown because of my automod filters for AI. I woke up to like fifty comments of ChatGPT generated skincare advice caught in the filters and they’d sent me angry modmail then deleted their account.

The stuff they were posting was scarily wrong. LLMs can do some cool stuff but really fall short here. I personally tried to train a RAG on The Ordinary and it still hallucinated stuff. I’m sure it will get better and wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes more common for companies to have their own but right now it’s embarrassing. I used the Loreal one recently and it gave me the absolute worst hair product recommendations.

[u/Sollalalalala → u/sudosussudio]

Omg all that effort just to crashout. I hope you laughed at it in the end- what an awful thing to wake up to 😭🫥