If you’ve ever toyed around with AI photo-generating apps, you may have noticed a trend emerging — especially when asking the technology to depict realistic-looking humans.
The trend I’m referring to is that all AI-generated humans seem to be stunningly beautiful — borderline perfect, in fact — despite visually flawless individuals rarely being a part of our day-to-day lives.
Take, for example, the below image.
I requested Midjourney to create a photo for an article about young people forcing the beauty industry to change. The prompt was something along the lines of ‘a diverse group of Gen Z teens wearing creative and colourful makeup.’