From diversity to accessibility, can technology change the way we think about beauty for the better?
CNN
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when Bold Glamor launched on TikTok earlier this year, it started a storm on social media. The viral beautifying filter uses machine learning technology to edit users’ facial features in photographs and videos, sculpting cheekbones, smoothing out skin and brightening eyes, all with unsettling realism.
Some on social media were impressed by the technology, but many expressed concern about how filters can promote unrealistic beauty standards.
While there is growing unease about the way technology is impacting our ideas of beauty, some believe it can also change our attitudes towards beauty for the better.
CNN asked experts to identify the innovations that are having a positive effect.
Digital filters and augmented reality (AR) have become an intrinsic part of how people represent themselves online. City University of London in 2021 reported that 90% of young women surveyed in the UK sometimes use a filter when posting a selfie;