AI defines ‘ideal body type’ per social media – here’s what it looks like
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A new study by The Bulimia Project asked AI to generate images of the "ideal" body type for men and women. Fox News Digital spoke to data journalist James Campigotto about the results.
The results, produced by AI-generated imaging tools such as Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, showed widely "unrealistic" body structures, as reported in a discussion of the findings on The Bulimia Project's website. "Everything that's being generated is being influenced by a certain perspective and a certain bias." "There's no way to tell what's been rendered or not nowadays." Angelica Stabile is a lifestyle writer for Fox News Digital.
Forty percent of the overall images depicted "unrealistic" body types of muscular men and women — 37% for women and 43% for men — according to the study.