Have you ever wondered what the “perfect” male or “perfect” female looks like? What colour hair they have, what colour eyes. Whether they’re tall or short, slim or thick. Well, wonder no more because AI has revealed the truth.
The Bulimia Project is an eating disorder awareness group and they asked artificial intelligence tools to produce the “perfect” male and female bodies based on what gets the most engagement on social media.
According to their results, the most desirable women have light hair, olive skin, dark eyes and a slim figure, while men are preferred to be tall, dark and handsome.
The project used multiple AI image generators - Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney – asking them to produce the “perfect” physique of men and women with all of the programs appearing to lean into outdated Caucasian beauty standards.
Daily Mail reported the AI generated images are thought to generate the images based on how people interact with social media posts, including likes and comments, and internet searches.