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Warnings over AI, toxic beauty myths dog TikTok filter

Bold Glamour convincingly blends a user’s real face with an AI-generated ideal of a supermodel, drawing both laughs and alarm.

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…

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