Unrealistic beauty standards have always existed, especially around women. But when those standards are pushed to their natural endpoint in the form of AI-generated photos of her featuring women in bikinis, the resulting ridicule leads to new memes.
Late last week, @heartereum posted a tweet featuring photos of several women in tiny bikinis. The tweet appears to many to be a celebration of unrealistic beauty standards being upheld.
“It’s over,” the tweet reads, influencing that mindset.
However, the photo in the tweet does not show a real person. A closer look at a woman’s hands, and possibly her teeth, reveals the creepiness. Even the person who posted the photos admitted they weren’t real, but they were from real sources.
“So machine learning has digested gigabytes of real photos of real girls, but these images are 100% computer generated.” @heartereum answered When asked if the photo was fake.
Despite flags indicating the photos aren’t real, the technology was clearly enough to fool some people and became the subject of jokes.
“I’m sorry, this is so silly. You must be a horny idiot like the dumbest cartoon to not immediately realize these aren’t real images.” Every time I post some of them, they’re just talking about themselves.” @punished_cait wrote.
But what really sparked this tweet was the complete removal of the AI-generated images and the impossibly standard of beauty depicted in the original AI photos. Many of the memes that followed used the phrase “I’m done” in combination with pictures of women that were either computer-generated, came from other media, or didn’t exist at all.
Sometimes it’s a real photo, like the artwork for Aphex Twin’s “Windowlicker,” or it’s before AI technology took over.
Even the animals mingled.
It doesn’t look like the growth in AI-generated images will plateau or decline anytime soon, but until then it serves at least one good purpose: an easy punchline.
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*First published: January 31, 2023 at 1:22 PM CST
Michelle Jaworski
Michelle Jaworski is a staff writer and TV/film critic for the Daily Dot. She’s covered entertainment, geek culture, and pop culture, and has covered everything from Sundance, NYFF, and Tribeca to New York Comic-Con and Con of Thrones. She is based in Brooklyn.