The First AI Beauty Pageant is Here
It will be the most boring beauty pageant in recorded history
If you were to step back in time to a medieval European village, you would notice a commonality among women—no makeup.
In medieval Europe, only pox-marked hussies slathered their faces with rouge and lipstick. To medieval folks, applying cosmetics was an act of deception, or as Hamlet chided Ophelia, "God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another." Simply put, a beautiful woman did not hide her face with artifice.
Today, the beauty ideal is not only unnatural but rather well,…dull. If you have seen one poreless, pouty lip bot with absurd anatomical measurements, you have seen them all.
So when the first AI beauty pageant with $20,000 in cash prizes was announced last week, my knee-jerk reaction was to wonder if de-evolution had begun. My second reaction was less cynical.
That beauty pageant is going to be one heck of a snooze fest.
The splashy media hype claiming this is the "first AI beauty pageant" attempts to bedazzle its flattened dullness for obvious reasons. I doubt another AI-generated "art" contest would get any media coverage. Unfortunately, when we blur the lines between art and beauty ideals, Cronus eats his young. And so the…
