Miss AI chooses the most beautiful AI model – and it’s worse than you expect

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AI models now have their own Miss Pageant – and it’s even worse than you’d expect

In the first Miss KI election, participants were able to submit their own models. They couldn’t take part themselves: no participant really exists. The choice still serves up a lot of clichés.

Everything has to be right. With perfect make-up, elaborately styled hairstyles and chic, figure-hugging outfits – flawless. This is what you expect from beauty pageant participants. At the recent Miss With AI, the craze for artificial perfection is now taken to the extreme: not even the participants themselves are real.

In the Miss AI competition, the submission phase of which ended yesterday, the most attractive model created entirely by AI will be chosen. The process is largely classic: the models are judged on their appearance and posture and have to show off their “character” in a number of questions. But then it’s all about the AI ​​nitty-gritty: the technical sophistication in creating the fake models as well as their social following are also used as evaluation criteria.

AI beauties are just the beginning

It’s not really about the models themselves. The WAICA, the “World AI Creator Awards”, primarily honors its creators. They should become a kind of Oscars for the AI ​​industry, enthuses co-founder Will Monanage in a press release. The Miss pageant with its $20,000 prize money should be just the beginning to attract the necessary attention.

At least the jury knows what they are talking about. Two of the jurors are AI models themselves. Aitana Lopez and Emily Pellegrini
have made headlines several times in recent months. The influencers, or their male inventors, who were created exclusively with AI, earn thousands of euros every month. PR expert Andrew Bloch and perhaps the only beauty pageant historian, Sally-Ann Fawcett, complete the jury.

All about sex appeal

When it comes to the participants, however, the worst has to be feared. In recent years, beauty competitions have increasingly focused on diversity and healthier images of women, but the two jury AI models have dashed any hope of realistic beauty ideals. According to his own statements, Pellegrini’s inventor created his model through a ChatGPT request for the average man’s dream woman – and then built a long-haired beauty with a large bust and long legs, which is said to have already fallen for a German soccer star (find out more here) .

The Aitana, developed by a Spanish team, also relies entirely on sex appeal – quite consciously. “The world is sexualized,” one of the inventors explains to “Euronews” when asked about the voluptuous, slim AI character with pink hair, which can be booked as an advertising character. “If we don’t cater to that aesthetic, no brand will simply be interested.”

What does AI do to the ideal of beauty?

The only woman on the jury doesn’t seem to have a problem with that either. “There are many parallels between real beauty pageant contestants and AI creatives and how they interact with their audience,” she told the Daily Mail. “It’s really exciting to be a part of something that feels so futuristic.”

The jury doesn’t seem to be concerned with what effect the perfect AI beauties have on the audience. The media’s unrealistic image of beauty has already been criticized in the past, and in recent years the demand for cosmetic surgery based on AI filters has increased. If the completely flawless AI models are added, the problem is likely to get even worse, believes cosmetic surgeon Steven Williams. “I think there will be an increasingly unrealistic expectation of eternal beauty and perfect form”; he told Forbes. “Through social media, this is becoming a part of our social structure.”

Sources: WAICA, Euronews, Forbes, Daily Mail