Plastic surgeons report more patients seeking to resemble AI-generated images with exaggerated, unrealistic features. A cosmetic dermatologist described a patient bringing an AI-created caricature with very large doll-like eyes generated by ChatGPT, and characterized the look as a “Bratz doll” style with huge lips, even bigger eyes, and a chiseled jaw. AI tools can intensify distorted self-perception by offering customization and pairing images with chatbots that may reinforce the belief that the altered appearance is an achievable upgrade. This effect can raise expectations for surgery, including patients using AI photo touch-ups who show significantly higher expectations. Surgeons also describe patients requesting extreme age reversal based on AI images.
"Plastic surgeons say that more patients are coming in and asking to look like an AI-generated version of themselves with cartoonishly unrealistic features, in the latest grim sign of how the tech preys on our insecurities and even shapes beauty standards."
"Rachel Westbay, a cosmetic dermatologist in New York, described how one woman brought in a caricature-like image with huge doll-like eyes generated by ChatGPT. "It's like saying I want to look like Ariel from 'The Little Mermaid,'" Westbay told Business Insider. "I was shocked." She called the AI aesthetic a "Bratz doll" look, with huge lips, even bigger eyes, and a chiseled jaw."
"AI isn't the first digital technology to twist people's perception of themselves and reinforce unhealthy beauty standards. Think Snapchat filters and our current influencer-driven social media environment. But as the disturbing rise of AI psychosis shows, AI's power to distort our thinking and feed on our insecurities is unmatched. And unlike typical filters, an AI image tool provides more customization, and an accompanying chatbot could gas up someone into thinking that their AI-laden lineaments are not only an upgrade, but achievable."
"That puts plastic surgeons in a tough spot; their authority is now being challenged by sycophantic AIs. A survey published last year by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and cited by BI found that patents who used AI to touch up their photos had "significantly higher" expectations for their plastic surgery. Sachin Shridharani, a plastic surgeon in Manhattan, recalled how a woman in her 70s came in with an AI-generated photo of herself asking for a "surgical time machine" and to look like her forty years"
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