'You can't control everything': the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create 'AI face'
Source: Guardian
Plastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the rise of AI face, as more and more clients arrive in their offices with unrealistic AI-generated visions of what they want to look like.
Dr Nora Nugent, a cosmetic surgeon from Tunbridge Wells, has seen this first hand. Clients have started coming to her office with photos of themselves beautified by AI and a false expectation that those results are achievable with surgery. She is also the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and says many colleagues are having similar experiences.
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People using AI chatbots to generate their ideal faces are increasingly arriving at surgeons offices with briefs demanding flawless skin, sharply sculpted cheekbones, refined noses and near-perfect symmetry standards that are too time consuming, prohibitively expensive and, in many cases, physically unattainable.
While AI can control every single pixel, surgery certainly doesnt work on that microscopic detailed level, according Dr Alex Karidis, a surgeon based in west London.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/23/rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face-cosmetic-surgery
tanyev
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niyad
(134,088 posts)When I get my hair cut, I take along a picture of the cut I would like. I explain to the cutter that I realize results will not be identical, just so the cut is somewhere in the vicinity. After all, different hair, no stylist, etc. They seem to appreciate my awareness.
BidenRocks
(3,517 posts)RockRaven
(19,772 posts)Big time saver for us all!
niyad
(134,088 posts)underpants
(197,260 posts)Terry Gilliam movie in 1985 dystopian science fiction black comedy film.
DeNiro has a small but crucial role in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
thought crime
(1,799 posts)perfessor
(394 posts)And Im going to keep them!
H/t to my wife, who has said the same about her gray hair for years.
msongs
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(172,965 posts)clownish
add Ozempic and -
WestMichRad
(3,410 posts)I had to look
shouldnt have done that.
(Shudder!)
Skittles
(172,965 posts)I think plastic surgery is OK for tweaking to look better but it's a big problem when people try to look age 20 again - and having lots of money seems to make it worse.
BettyBlueDot
(28 posts)It's come true. We achieved idiocracy. Somehow, somewhere... Somewhere a place for us.
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us, somewhere....Oh, wait. orange grifter felon ... somehow.... Will no one rid me of this turbulent .... THING ???
littlemissmartypants
(34,470 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(11,593 posts)The age of computers has truly done a number on some people. They are truly delusional thanks to years of doing nothing but sitting at a desk and using the computer to try and be something that they are not. Then, after enough time of being isolated and unsociable for years, they get forced into the real world once they hit adulthood (in most cases anyway) and have zero social skills and ability to handle the fact that the world does not turn around them.
Delusion is the American norm these days, it seems.
Martin68
(28,091 posts)logical result of that trend. This is not to belittle the contribution ethical cosmetic surgeons make for people with real issues that need correction or modification.
GenThePerservering
(3,737 posts)or a little lick of paint on the ol' porch, but this is ridiculous.
I foresee when everyone looks the same, and looking characteristic and natural becomes sought after as a standard of looks.