{"id":14199,"date":"2024-04-23T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/miss-ai-is-billed-as-a-leap-forward-but-feels-like-a-monumental-step-backwards-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T10:37:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T08:37:25","slug":"miss-ai-is-billed-as-a-leap-forward-but-feels-like-a-monumental-step-backwards-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/miss-ai-is-billed-as-a-leap-forward-but-feels-like-a-monumental-step-backwards-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miss AI\u2019 is billed as a leap forward but feels like a monumental step backwards | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI models take every toxic gendered beauty norm and bundle them up into completely unrealistic package <\/p>\n<p>Meet Madame Potato. She doesn\u2019t actually exist, but, if things go my way, she\u2019s going to be the world\u2019s first \u201cMiss AI\u201d. I recently created her image on a website that generates AI faces and then entered her into a beauty pageant. Now I am sitting back in anticipation of netting the $20,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n<p>What fresh hell is this, you ask? Well, I regret to inform you that AI beauty pageants are a thing now. A company called Fanvue, which is a subscription-based content creator platform along the same lines as OnlyFans, recently teamed up with the World AI Creator Awards (WAICA) to launch the world\u2019s first \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waicas.com\/\">Miss AI\u201d competition<\/a>. A team of judges \u2013 comprising two humans and two virtual models \u2013 will sort through AI-generated pictures of women and choose one to crown as \u201cMiss AI\u201d. The winner gets a cash prize along with the chance to monetize their creation on Fanvue.<\/p>\n<p>Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/23\/miss-ai-artificial-intelligence-models-gendered-beauty-norms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/763375fb1299b1b069febf7127bb3863ca16a15d\/244_0_7524_4517\/master\/7524.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8b3885cf42779546503e044478952301\" title=\"\u2018Miss AI\u2019 is billed as a leap forward but feels like a monumental step backwards | Arwa Mahdawi\" \/>AI models take every toxic gendered beauty norm and bundle them up into completely unrealistic package<br \/>\nMeet Madame Potato. She doesn\u2019t actually exist, but, if things go my way, she\u2019s going to be the world\u2019s first \u201cMiss AI\u201d. I recently created her image on a website that generates AI faces and then entered her into a beauty pageant. Now I am sitting back in anticipation of netting the $20,000 grand prize.<br \/>\nWhat fresh hell is this, you ask? Well, I regret to inform you that AI beauty pageants are a thing now. A company called Fanvue, which is a subscription-based content creator platform along the same lines as OnlyFans, recently teamed up with the World AI Creator Awards (WAICA) to launch the world\u2019s first \u201cMiss AI\u201d competition. A team of judges \u2013 comprising two humans and two virtual models \u2013 will sort through AI-generated pictures of women and choose one to crown as \u201cMiss AI\u201d. The winner gets a cash prize along with the chance to monetize their creation on Fanvue.<br \/>\nArwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI models take every toxic gendered beauty norm and bundle them up into completely unrealistic package Meet Madame Potato. She doesn\u2019t actually exist, but, if things go my way, she\u2019s going to be the world\u2019s first \u201cMiss AI\u201d. 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