The rise of the AI beauty pageant and its complicated quest for the ‘perfect’ woman
人工智慧選美的興起及其對「完美」女性的複雜追求
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Ten women participating in a beauty pageant is nothing new. Some pose candidly, some play to the camera, their beauty forever frozen in this moment in time. Like many other pageants held in countries around the world, the contestants are young, thin and embody many of the standards defining traditional “beauty.” But that is where the similarities to a traditional beauty pageant end. None of these women are real — everything about them, even the emotion that flickers across their faces, is generated by artificial intelligence (AI), for the world’s first ever AI beauty pageant. Each has a creator or team of creators, who use programmes like Open AI’s DALL·E 3, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion to generate images of the women from text prompts. These 10 contestants have been selected from a pool of more than 1,500 entrants to make the final of “Miss AI,” scheduled to be held at the end of June and broadcast online by its organizers “The World AI Creator Awards.” For those involved, the event is an opportunity to showcase and demystify the technology’s extraordinary abilities. But for others, it represents a further proliferation of unrealistic beauty standards often linked to racial and gender stereotypes and fueled by the ever-increasing number of digitally enhanced images online. “I think we’re starting to increasingly lose touch with what an unedited face looks like,” Dr Kerry McInerney, a research associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, told CNN in a video interview.
---from CNN
十名女性參加選美比賽並不是什麼新鮮事。有的擺姿勢,有的對著鏡頭嬉戲,她們的美麗永遠定格在這一刻。與世界各國舉辦的許多其他選美比賽一樣,參賽者年輕、瘦弱,體現了許多定義傳統「美」的標準。 但這就是與傳統選美比賽的相似之處。這些女性中沒有一個是真實的——她們的一切,甚至她們臉上閃過的情感,都是由人工智慧 (AI) 生成的,這是世界上首次人工智慧選美比賽的結果。每個都有一個創作者或創作者團隊,他們使用 Open AI 的 DALL·E 3、Midjourney 或 Stable Diffusion 等程式根據文字提示生成女性圖像。 這 10 名選手是從 1,500 多名參賽者中選出的,將進入「人工智慧小姐」決賽,決賽定於 6 月底舉行,並由主辦方「世界人工智慧創造者獎」在線直播。 對於參與者來說,這次活動是一個展示和揭開該技術非凡能力的機會。但對其他人來說,它代表了不切實際的美容標準的進一步擴散,這些標準通常與種族和性別刻板印象有關,並受到網路上數位增強圖像數量不斷增加的推動。 劍橋大學萊弗休姆未來智慧中心研究員Kerry McInerney博士在接受 CNN 視訊採訪時表示:“我認為我們開始越來越不了解未經編輯的面孔是什麼樣子。”
---摘錄翻譯自CNN