The Ugliness of the World’s First Artificial Beauty Pageant

Human models are now being pushed out of beauty competitions in favour of Ai-generated contestants.

None of these women are real. From author using Midjourney

While traditional beauty pageants might be losing popularity, the tech industry has a solution: introducing the first artificial intelligence beauty pageant.

So, in true man fashion, I had to go and check it out for myself — despite knowing the results would be predictable.

Turns out the contest has already been shortlisted to 10 “finalists” in the Miss AI Beauty Pageant, a product of the World AI Creators Awards (WAICAS) in partnership with Fanvue, a subscription Ai messaging and voice platform.

I put “finalists” in quotes, because these women aren’t real. They were chosen from 1,500 entries from humans using programs like Midjourney and DALL-E 3, according to an article from Time.

From the WAICA Instagram page

While the women aren’t real, it appears the incentives to their creators are: the contest site says there is $20,000 worth of prizes to be awarded to the winners, including perks such as a “Star listing across all Fanvue social…