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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Women With Body Image Issues Are Asking ChatGPT Something Terrible
People are using ChatGPT for things its creators never even imagined — including, in a decidedly "Black Mirror" twist, to solicit feedback on how to better conform to society's norms around attractiveness. As the Washington Post reports, women struggling with self-worth and body image issues have taken to asking the OpenAI chatbot, and others like it, for advice on how to be, in the parlance, "hotter." What's worse: despite years of evidence showing how weird chatbots can get when it comes to providing advice, multiple women in their early 30s told the news outlet that they'd had good experiences getting ChatGPT to critique their looks and bodies. "People filter things through their biases and bring their own subjectivity into these sorts of loaded questions," explained Ania Rucisnki, a 32-year-old in Australia who said she uploaded her photo to the chatbot and asked it how she could look better. "ChatGPT brings a level of objectivity you can't get in real life." That assumption, while intriguing, isn't entirely correct. Though OpenAI and other companies have worked to tamp down human prejudice from their chatbots — which we've encountered the hard way on multiple occasions over the years — they're still rife with bias. The very concept of AI being objective is starting to shift as models like OpenAI's o-series reasoning models are trained to learn, with many missteps, how to have emotional intelligence and empathy. When Kayla Drew, also 32, asked ChatGPT for advice on various aspects of her looks, from her skin and hair to clothes and makeup, it gave her suggestions that ultimately led to roughly $200 in purchases. Though OpenAI doesn't yet make money from any links it includes during such exchanges, the company has said that it's exploring ad revenue as a future income stream — and others, like Perplexity, are already making money from in-chatbot advertising. "Today I asked about whitening my teeth, and she [yes, this person uses 'she' pronouns to refer to ChatGPT] was like, 'Make sure your dental hygiene is good,' and I was like, 'Damn, girl,'" Drew told WaPo. "Nobody else would come up to me and say that. It was pretty cool because I guess I needed to hear it." Of course, it's hard to suss out how "make sure your dental hygiene is good" would be considered particularly actionable advice for questions about teeth whitening. According to Emily Pfeiffer, a commerce analyst with the business consultancy Forrester, that sort of thing is par for the course with AI, which "just echoes what it's seen online." "Much of that has been designed to make people feel bad about themselves and buy more products," Pfeiffer said. More on AI and women: AI Is Replacing Women's Jobs Specifically
The Sun
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
I asked ChatGPT to help me glow up for summer – I did the tweaks at home & people say I look better than Blake Lively
A WOMAN has shared how she used ChatGPT to help her 'glow up for summer' - and the results are incredible. Kayla Drew uploaded a video showing her before and after appearance after asking the AI service to help her boost how attractive she was. 6 On her @mskayladrew account, she showed a clip before using the prompts. Although she was beautiful before and after the transformation, in the 'after' clips she had embraced her natural curly hair and added a glowing tan. She did the transformation over just one week, and said the things she did included getting a hair cut and gloss, whitening her teeth, getting her lashes and brows done and altering a few bits in her make-up routine. Kayla revealed that she had asked ChatGPT: 'Can you tell me 10 things I can do to be better looking by summer if I send a photo?' She had then uploaded a make-up free selfie and then chatted back and forth with the AI programme to get some helpful tips. She added: 'We kind of went through and just chatted back and forth. 'And she tailored it to, like, specific things that I wanted to do. 'I knew that I wanted to be able to do it myself and at home. 'I didn't want to go spend, like, a million dollars. 'I also didn't want her to, like, tell me anything like, 'Go get 17 syringes of Botox,' because I wasn't gonna do anything like that.' I found the best summer body glow in Primark - it's only £3.50 & isn't oily She joked: 'I was so worried she was gonna tear me apart.' Kayla added that she had just used the website for the help and said she logged in with her email so their conversation was saved. She continued: 'I was able to go back in and see which product she recommended and things like that. 6 6 'So once I entered my email, and it was easier for me to just download the app so that I had all of our things just right there—or conversations. 'I didn't pay for any of this. This is all in the free version. 'The only thing is I can't send as many photos as the paid version. 'But I didn't pay for anything. I did all of this for free.' People were hugely impressed with her transformation, with one saying: 'You're what Blake Lively wishes she looked like.' Another added: 'Girl, the hair!!! I love it!!!!' 6 The beauty product which is 'key to Kate Middleton's glow' WHEN your schedule is as busy as Kate's, making the most of your beauty sleep is vital for maintaining glowing skin. She is known to make her skincare products work overtime when she's catching Zs by lathering up in elixirs. Insiders claim that the Beuti Skincare Beauty Sleep Elixir is her go-to, and she keeps a stash of bottles on her nightstand. The £47 product contains 14 plant-based oils that slow down the enzyme responsible for ageing and prevent the breakdown of collagen, the protein in our skin that stops it from sagging. Collagen gives skin a plump appearance but starts deteriorating in our mid-20s, so Kate is beating the natural ageing process by delaying how quickly it breaks down.
