Artificial intelligence has created representations of the ‘perfect’ man and woman, and the results are actually pretty unsettling.

The AI photos were produced using algorithms that combed through billions of human image images and engagement statistics on social media data.

The Bulimia Project, an organization that raises awareness of eating disorders, kept track of the results and issued a warning that the body types depicted in the images are “largely unrealistic.”

It takes little time to understand why the pictures can be so harmful and dangerous for anyone who isn’t a toned, tanned Caucasian.

To begin with, both men and women’s photographs exhibit a preference towards olive skin tones, while women’s images tended to like blonde hair and brown eyes and men’s images favored brown hair and brown eyes.

After the announcement of the findings, questions have been raised about more than only the conclusions regarding hair color.

The AI’s collection of social media-inspired images was found to be significantly more “sexually charged” than the images discovered elsewhere on the internet, according to the Bulimia Project study employing Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney.

53 percent of the AI-generated images of women had olive skin, while 37 percent of the female images had blonde hair.

The ideal male figure, however, was portrayed as being composed of large, strong bodybuilders with six-packs, extra-tight t-shirts, and muscles that look to have muscles.

Men with darker hair and medium-toned skin were clearly preferred in 67 percent of the AI-generated photographs for men and in 63 percent of the images for women.

The Bulimia Project invited AI to offer its viewpoint based on photographs from around the internet after utilizing AI to analyze the images social media promotes as the ideal man and woman.

The AI photos for the ‘ideal’ guy in 2023 portrayed individuals with facial hair, typically sporting brown eyes and hair.

Images of ladies with brown eyes, brown hair, and tanned skin were among the results for the identical prompt used to find pictures of the “perfect” woman.

It’s not hard to understand why AI renderings would be more sexualized given that social media uses algorithms depending on which content attracts the most attention, according to The Bulimia Project.
However, we can only speculate that the fact that social media platforms already encourage unrealistic body types is the reason AI produced so many weirdly shaped replicas of the physiques it observed there.