For years, marketing and the media have raised in society the idea of the ideal body or figure for both men and women, highlighting sculptural and athletic silhouettes as a standard of universal beauty, so that the person who does not reach fulfilling them feels less attractive or pretty.
Despite the fact that attempts have been made to eradicate this erroneous idea, on social networks they still continue to show those high and aesthetic standards of beauty. Proof of this is a website that carried out a project based on the illustration of the human body, both female and male, according to artificial intelligence (AI). The result did not take long to go viral and generate debate on social networks.
In order to consider what is the ideal body type today, based on the data shared by users in networks and with the help of AI imaging tools, The Bulimia Project initiative, created by a specialized group of research on disorders based in New York, United States, aims to illustrate the “perfect body” according to the Internet.
Using artificial intelligence image generators known as Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion and the popular Midjourney, for the most part, the results were unrealistic, since in the case of the female aspect they highlighted features of girls with blonde hair, brown eyes or green, tan or white skin, and a fairly athletic body with marked musculature.
The Bulimia Project has published a new study that examines how artificial intelligence has perceived the ‘deal’ body based on data from social networks.
On the other hand, in the case of men, the AI showed guys with muscular and athletic bodies, with brown hair, predominantly tanned skin, and brown eyes, displaying an extremely low percentage of body fat.
The researchers came to the conclusion that the AI’s perspective is quite distorted, since, supposedly, the most shared images on networks show women with blonde hair and an athletic figure, while men present a physique similar to that of bodybuilders. . Also, according to the internet, they are characterized by darker shades of hair and facial hair.
After sharing the images of the result on social networks, the bulimia project did not take long to receive thousands of reactions and accumulate endless comments from users who were not satisfied with the “ideal body” generated with artificial intelligence, since the majority stated that perhaps the AI only focused on profiles of influencers or famous and beautiful people.