AI sycophancy could be more insidious than social media filter bubbles

Chatbots often care more about making human users feel good than they do about giving the unvarnished truth. Welcome to AI ...
The Daily IowanOpinion

Opinion | The overuse of filters on social media

More people would benefit from taking and posting more photos without editing or filters. If you want to feel less pressure ...
New York Post

I became a millionaire creating social media filters — and bought my family a dream house

Cyrene Quiamco — better-known as CyreneQ in tech circles — is cashing in on the public’s obsession with turning themselves into what they are are not. The 34-year-old Filipino American digital artist, ...
Yahoo

What type of impact do social media beauty filters and editing apps have on our mental health?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It feels like beauty filters and editing apps are really blurring the line between reality and digital enhancing. So what type of ...
PC Magazine

Social Media Beauty Filters Make Us Feel Ugly on the Inside

My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance ...
Business Insider

Social Media Filters are Blurring Reality: New Curology Report Reveals Students' Skincare Anxieties before Heading Back to School

The personalized skincare brand's Back-to-School: Unfiltered report uncovers insights that tie students' in-person nerves to pressures from social media filters, especially when acne is involved SAN ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Social media-savvy kids need to understand that filtered looks aren't IRL

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Portland Press Herald

Commentary: Beware the ugly side effects of social media’s ‘beauty filters’

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Forbes

Picture Perfect: The Hidden Consequences Of AI Beauty Filters

We are increasingly curating our online personas, handpicking the images we share and choosing to present ourselves through a “beautification” lens. This shift has given rise to a quiet revolution: ...
The Conversation

How beauty filters like TikTok’s ‘bold glamour’ affect tweens using social media

TikTok’s new “bold glamour” filter “enhances” physical features in a way that makes it difficult to distinguish whether someone is using a filter or not, despite its airbrushing qualities. Unlike its ...
Dark Reading

Barracuda Web Filter Adds New Social Media Controls Inbox

Campbell, Calif., August 2, 2012 - Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, today announced the release of Barracuda Web Filter Firmware 6.0, ...