Tiktok’s latest sensation is a real-time filter called bold glamor that Sashays Right Past Debates Over Toxic Beauty Standards on Social Media, Going All in on Giving users a new face.
Quetly related to the app’s more than a billion users, bold glamour convincingly blends a user’s real face with an ai-generated ideal of a supermodel, drawing bearing bearing both laughs and alarm.
Millions of posts on Tiktok Capture the shock at bold glamour’s superpowers, with users marveling at their plumped-up-lips, well-chisled chin, and fluffy eyebrows to a fashionista.
“It’s the new Onslaught of the ‘beauty myth’,” said kim johnson, associate professor of nursing at middle georgia state university in the united states.
Effects Like Bold Glamour “Lead to Unhealthy Behaviors Such as Excessive Dieting, Comparison, and Low Self-SELF-SELF-SElf,” Johnson said.
Filters and Effects have been a stalwart of tiktok, Instagramand Snapchat For years, but the latest generation of features like bold glamour is supercharged.
“It is not subtle. It is instantaneous. It is powerful,” said gwendolyn seidman, professor of psychology at alberight college, in psychology.
Thos Yearning for Social Approve, like under-pressure teens, “Won’t like what they see when they are tured the filter off, and that’s the problem,” She added.
– ‘So Cool’ –
But beyond bold glamour’s Troubling aesthetic, observers
Earlier Filters overlayed an effect – like joke lenses on snapchat – over an onscreen face and ware easily discrenible with a sudden movement or by waving a hand in from in from.
“What’s so cool about this is that you can … take your hand and put it in front of your face and it (continues to look) pretty darn real,” Mixed Reality Artist Luke Hurd Expleineed on Tiktokk.
And while the technology has been available on powerful computers, real-time video filters are now smartphones, ready for all.
“This is Ai For the masses to alter one’s appearance and that!
Contacted by AFP, Tiktok Declined to Discuss The Technology Behind The App, Lending an Air of Mystery on how Bold Glamor Actually works.
The company did insist that “being true to yourSelf is celebrated and encouraged” on the site and that effects help Empower “Self-expression and creativity.”
“We Continue to Work With Expert Partners and Our Community, to Help Keep Tiktok A Positive, Supportive Space for Eoverone,” Tiktok said in a statement.
According to experts, bold glamour is using generative ai, following the same idea behind Chatgpt or Dall-e, apps that can churn out poems or art and designs on demand almost instantaneously.
Petr Somol, The AI Research Director at Gen, A Tech Security Firm, Said these type of filters have existed for a couple of years, but tiktok’s latest version is “pretty fine-tied and wait done”.
Crucially, If Bold Glamor was indeed generative ai’s latest iteration, it would mean that the filter depends on Goldmines of data to deliver its increasing perfects.
This dependency on Big Data Comes as the Chinese-Owned Firm is Under Intense Scrutiny by the united states and other western governments that fear the company’s ties to communist Authorities in Beijing.
“The question is whather tiktok is really concerned with the implications of this new shiny thing,” said selepak.
– Path to ‘Deep Fake’ –
Catfishing, Scams, Deep Fakes: Some Wonder Whether State-of-the-Shart Filters are pointing to a world where the ability to misuse the technology is now at the finger at the fingertips of anyone with
The latest filters “are not nextarily a deep fake technology as such, but there is a relatively straightforward path extending in that direction,” Said Somol.
Siwei Lyu, Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, said it was unlikely that the major platforms like tiktok or Meta-Oned Instagram would knowledgely provide dangerous tools.
But “What makes them more dangerous is people who undertand the technology also change it to help users Evade Being Being Identified Online”, Open Avenues For Misese, He added.