2023/03/27

Say Cheese: Generative AI Creates Monoculture of Facial Expressions

“In the same way that English language emotion concepts have colonized psychology, AI dominated by American-influenced image sources is producing a new visual monoculture of facial expressions.”
– American UX designer and health futurist Jenka Gurfinkel, on the proliferation of the American smile as “distinct cultural histories and meanings of facial expressions become mischaracterized, homogenized, subsumed under the dominant dataset”
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