Things are going to get really confusing for normies when crime vids are in play.
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23621751/bold-glamour-tiktok-face-filter-beauty-ai-ar-body-dismorphia
“This is a bit of a milestone, and an indicator of the weirdness of the post-reality world that lies ahead,” says Memo Akten, assistant professor of computational art and design at UC San Diego Visual Arts, who’s been highlighting videos of how accurately the effect changes faces.
Bold Glamour transforms users’ faces in ways we’ve come to expect from traditional “beauty” filters, but in a vastly more impressive way. It adds sharp contouring on the sides of the face and nose over a matte, even complexion. Eyebrows are lusher and symmetrical. Lips are plumper. There’s a sparkly, glazed-over look to the eyes — present but empty. Since gaining traction sometime last week, more than 9 million videos using the filter have been shared on TikTok already.
But despite the face filter tropes present in Bold Glamour, TikTok users have noticed that something about this effect is different. Unlike other filters that make it look like cartoon eyelashes or exaggerated eyeshadow has been painted onto a user’s face, the Bold Glamour modifications seem to move with the human face beneath them and even adjust when applied to masculine faces. And most notably, the filter barely distorts when a user puts their hand in front of themselves, a common occurrence with other face effects.
Hurd says Bold Glamour is likely making use of machine learning technologies — and in particular, Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs — to pull off this impressive feat.
“Simply put, GANs pit two competing
neural networks against each other in a fist-fight to the death,” Hurd says. In the case of Bold Glamour, it’s a competition between the camera’s view of your face and the style TikTok wants to morph you into. “Because it uses you, it then compares aspects of your face to a dataset of images that start to match against your cheeks, eyes, eyebrows, lips, and more.” Eventually, the technology combines the two sets of images into one. “If we do this fast enough, we can achieve a video framerate,” Hurd says. “And now we have a next-level effect like Bold Glamour!”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23621751/bold-glamour-tiktok-face-filter-beauty-ai-ar-body-dismorphia