This excellent short video by Cassandra J. Klepac on TikTok is another great use case of what not to do with AI: use AI-generated models in an article about beauty standards.
The prompts and the image generation are not inherently harmful themselves in the abstract – but the use of AI in this particular use case is.
Why? Because of the context. “Beauty” standards are already impossibly high with dangerous mental and emotional side effects. Now compound that with standards of beauty that literally cannot exist because the people being depicted do not exist.
This underscores yesterday’s newsletter about AI ethics. No one at this magazine asked the simple question, “What could go wrong?” at any point in the editorial process. What they likely thought was, “Wow, we can save a ton of money on photo shoots” and created harmful side effects in the process.
Beauty publications: you forgot to not do this.
For everyone else: at every point in your use of AI, it is everyone’s job to ask what could go wrong. What harms, intentional or not, could you be creating? What systemic biases could you be reinforcing?
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