Artificially intelligent photo editing software has placed capabilities normally reserved for professionals into the hands of anyone with a smartphone and a selfie, resulting in a severe uptick of portraits of people with biological impossibilities like pore-free skin.
But handing off tedious manual editing tasks to a computer unintentionally gives software the ability to define today’s beauty standards. With each launch of new AI editing features, it seems as if the list of normal features that are no longer considered fashionable grows. A key example? The odd list of features that Evoto, an AI-based photo editing suite for Mac and Windows, apparently thinks need to be edited out.
