Bazaar's Beauty Issue grapples with the question of what beauty means in 2023
For May 2023, we talked to four of the moment's most compelling models about their own philosophies of beauty. But first, features director Kaitlyn Greenidge grapples with how to find authentic beauty in a world of AI-driven filters and algorithms.
Around the new year, everyone’s face changed—not in real life but on the glowing screens of social media. Friends replaced their usually sober, realistic profile photos with sleek cartoon avatars of AI portraits. Suddenly, everyone wanted to look like they’d been subsumed by a video game. People who I did not think particularly cared about the face they presented on social media posted endless carousels of themselves as fairy queens and dragon slayers and mistresses of a vague martial art.
I’m a Luddite by nature, always drawn to the past. I grew up in the age of digital music, but for many years I thought that the most beautiful object in my home was a reel-to-reel tape machine I’d found abandoned outside a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. So I am, predictably, unimpressed by the kind of beauty AI has wrought. AI works by pulling from the sheer number of images on the internet and bringing them all together to create a new likeness in response to whatever prompts you feed it.
Gerald and Sara Murphy and the artists they cavorted with in the 1920s were living in another great technological revolution, when the camera, producing photographs and moving images, was finally revealing its true power. But those artists were more optimistic than I am. Faced with a technological change, they saw it as freedom to allow their eye to seek beauty in new places, in things that broke entirely from the past.
And perhaps there is something to be said for being challenged to find beauty. A few days after reading that passage about the Murphys, I was traveling home from a holiday with my daughter. We’d left our hotel at 1:30 in the morning, been on and off planes for the last eight hours. I remember looking up at the scaffolding surrounding the exit from baggage claim and thinking what a uniquely ugly airport we had flown into.
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