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Michelle Tian

“Gross” Social Media Trend Capitalizing On Down Syndrome For Adult Content Faces Backlash

Artificial intelligence can be used for good, but a recent trend from social media has started to take things a little too far.

On platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, AI is utilizing features that are typically associated with Down syndrome and morphing them into user’s faces — with most of the women using them for s–xual purposes while wearing barely any clothing.

The trend is used to drive engagement as the posts will often direct consumers to adult sites or OF accounts, seeing numbers of hundreds of thousands of views.

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