Aesthetics powered by AI on Instagram: Understanding the risks of feeding our faces to bots
Artificial intelligence (AI) boomed a few years ago and slowly seeped into people’s lives so much that many adults today rely on it to complete their everyday tasks. It first entered under the guise of being an internet bot with answers or solutions, many a time arbitrary ones, and then eventually asked us if we would like to alter our images and videos either sparingly or in totality. From the viral Gemini vintage red sari trend to the more recent trend of blending a person’s childhood picture with their adult self, AI has made its presence unmistakably clear.
