AI's "Ideal Body Type" on Social Media: Unrealistic and Harmful.

Artificial intelligence-generated imaging tools such as Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney have produced widely "unrealistic" body structures, according to a study by The Bulimia Project. The study investigated how AI perceived the "ideal" body based on social media data and found that 40% of the overall images depicted "unrealistic" body types of muscular men and women. The idealization of body types on social media has an undeniable effect on adults as well, experts say. The study revealed biases present within artificial intelligence, warning users to "take everything with a grain of salt."