What exactly are the “ideal” body types being promoted by the billions of images on social media? And just how distorted are they from reality? Without being able to ask these apps directly, we turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to find out.

Let’s see what the AI image generators, Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney came up with. Warning: Their results were largely unrealistic.

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Scrolling Into Bias: Social Media’s Effect on AI Art. (2023). The Bulimia Project. https://bulimia.com/examine/scrolling-into-bias/