Warnings over AI and toxic beauty myths dog TikTok’s Bold Glamour filter

Photo illustration created March 8, 2023 in Washington shows two editors testing the BoldGlamour filter on TikTok. TikTok’s latest sensation is a real-time filter called Bold Glamour and it sashays right past debates over toxic beauty standards on social media, going all in on giving users a new face. Quietly released 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 both laughs and alarm. — AFP

WASHINGTON: TikTok’s latest sensation is a real-time filter called Bold Glamour that sashays right past debates over toxic beauty standards on social media, going all in on giving users a new face.

Quietly released 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 both laughs and alarm.