WASHINGTON: TikTok’s latest sensation is a real-time filter called Bold Glamour that sashays right past debates over toxic beauty standards on social media, going all in on giving users a new face.
Quietly released to the app’s more than a billion users, Bold Glamour convincingly blends a user’s real face with an AI-generated ideal of a supermodel, drawing both laughs and alarm.
Millions of posts on TikTok capture the shock at Bold Glamour’s superpowers, with users marvelling at their plumped up lips, well-chiselled chin and fluffy eyebrows worthy of a fashionista.
“It’s the new onslaught of the ‘beauty…