TikTok’s Bold Glamour beauty effect can chisel chins, plump lips and serve Kardashian-style makeup contours for anyone with a smartphone. The real-time filter has creators and technologists worried about an unprecedented capacity to manipulate appearances.
TikTok spokesperson Alexa Youssefian declined to discuss the technology behind the filter, but users and researchers say that the filter reads people’s skin tones, perceived gender and hair color, then determines the amount of makeup, lip fillers and“It looks like the filter used Kylie Jenner’s face as a model for a machine learning algorithm, and then blended her face onto mine,” Laura Gouillon, a social media filter creator, told The Washington Post.makeup techniques, she said.
Hany Farid, a computer science professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said the filter is probably using “ ,” a technology that studies zillions of pictures and text samples, often scraped from the web, to create new images or words. “They use something called Generative Adversarial Network,” he said. “They take an image of the user and then compare it to a data set of other images and then redraw your face, pixel by pixel, on the output of your camera feed.”
The filter’s accessibility is what sets it apart from previous means of visual manipulation, said Halsey Burgund, a creative technologist in residence at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.“The capacity to believably manipulate yourself, and soon others, in videos has become commoditized [through this effect], and that is the real jump,” he said. “This tech has lived in labs, companies and in more esoteric settings on the web for a while, but now everyone can do it for free and see how it works.
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