Artist Uses AI to Create Fictional Teen Magazine Exposing Problems with Beauty Standards
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Artist Elizabeth Renstrom created a fictional teen magazine, "Yummy," using AI to reflect on her own teen magazine consumption.
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The AI was fed old teen magazines, encoding their biases into the generated content about diets, skin care, and idealized celebrities.
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The nostalgic Y2K aesthetic Renstrom mimics in her photos likely also influenced the AI output, presenting an irony she acknowledges.
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Real teen girls are photographed with pages from "Yummy" collaged behind them, showing the magazines' distorting effect.
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The exhibition runs through February 2024 at Baxter St. gallery in New York.