Weapons of Mass Perfection: how Generative AI is shaping beauty ideals

Would you sacrifice 5 years of your life for perfection?  Whilst the beauty landscape has diversified, generative technologies are inundating our feeds with unattainable beauty content, leaving women and girls around the world feeling more pressure than ever to meet unrealistic standards.
 
Join us as we reveal brand new research into Generative AI’s influence on beauty standards worldwide and explore how we can influence AI tools to learn more empowering visions of beauty.
 
Gain a deeper understanding of how digitally distorted beauty ideals are harming women and girls - even when they know the images are fake and discover why close to 1 in 2 women in Australia would be willing to give up at least a year of their life to achieve their ideal appearance. 

Leave this session with inspiration for how we can positively impact generative technologies to unlearn harmful beauty stereotypes and reimagine broader definitions of beauty.