Jia Tolentino shares how the rise of "Instagram face" strips the face of human information

Oh, come on now you guys in the comments section...<br><br>We&#39;ve seen this phenomena on several media platforms when guest speakers dial in. There&#39;s some major filtering going on. We&#39;ve seen it in the movie, TV, advertising &amp; in social media industry already; how they AI generate actors &amp; other celebrities to age up &amp; down, etc. The Big corporations have commercialized that technology &amp; it&#39;s reached us to use now. 🤔😉

Here in the UK, a lot of women, and some men, are resorting to fillers, Botox, EXTREMELY unnatural looking, exaggerated fake lashes, fake tans and bleached hair full of extensions. Their faces do not move when they’re laughing, crying, and everything else in between. People in their early twenties have this strange appearance, almost addicted to getting these unnecessary procedures done, and as a result they look like a much older women trying to look young. <br><br>As someone who’s AuDHD, I’m highly attuned to people’s micro expressions, and I’m really struggling to understand what people are feeling now because all genuine emotion has been wiped off the faces of a sizeable percentage of the population. They’ve no longer got the ability to emote, leaving me to assume everyone is permanently slightly angry and bored with me…although, I might truly generate that reaction!😅 I’ve even had a support worker who has this frozen face - honestly a lovely lady - but it’s off putting when she’s constantly giving off a passive aggressive air due to her filler face. I’m starting to wonder how this will affect very young babies and children, if they’re learning by mirroring mothers who aren’t capable of physically changing the expression on their faces; are we going to end up with a generation of kids with permanently blank expressions?

The algorithm is a feedback loop driven by interaction. Raise your hand if you are watching this video because you were attracted to the face in the thumbnail. This video was suggested to you because you have trained the algorithm to know what you like... and you are not so different than millions of others who click on the prettiest faces. Over time, we all start seeing the prettiest faces, and those faces all share common attributes that make them pretty. It&#39;s all about those clicks, and the clicks never lie.