Will anything stop you from posting Faceapp pics on Instagram all weekend?
’ is a phrase used to describe the phenomenon that lead people to undergo plastic surgery in order to resemble their favourite Snapchat filters. Looking conventionally attractive and flaw-free on the ‘gram is, for many, not something worth striving for anymore. Beauty influencers have the monopoly there: the ones who use make-up like Monet.
But, like with everything, there are layers to FaceApps popularity. Just because everybody’s using them doesn’t mean we shouldn’t exercise caution when it comes to navigating these so-called ‘AI’ apps’, no matter how entertaining they may be. If we were to trust the swirling rumours of the internet, the Russian techlords behind them are downloading all of our data and forcing us to hand over the rights to our own likeness -- as well as swathes of personal information.
Those grandiose statements are enough to scare the shit out of anyone who finds them buried in the app’s Ts and Cs. There’s a theory that they could be creating a database of everybody’s selfies for facial recognition purposes., the app’s chief executive Yaroslav Goncharov stressed that this was not the case.
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