🤖 What Does Vogue's Use Of AI Models Mean For Our Future?

She has sleek blonde hair, a delicate nose and flawless features.

But she is not real.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation. You know, I ask you to
guess anything. I'm talking about the brand Guests, big brand.
They sell all kinds of things, expensive brand bags and stuff. Yeah, bags, watches,
clothes or stuff. Yes, uh they have.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
You did say guess.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
They've featured a new campaign in Vogue magazine with this
beautiful model. But what and she looks gorgeous, blonde hair,
she's kind of very curvy. Don't mean to show you
a picture. I You've got chipture in front of you.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
I've got a picture.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
She's curvy. She looks a bit like is it Hannah
Wattingham who's in Like, what's what's the movie?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
What?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
That's that TV show with the song Lasso?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
So she's curvy, Hannah Waddington.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
And a young Denise Richards in the face.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
And Sophie Sophia Vigara.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
So she's she's very sexy. Girl next door looks amazing.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Who's she? Who's this girl?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well? Her name here? Does she have her name? Her name?
I'm not sure. Maybe it's Sarah Fina what people have discovered?
You don't normally know the model's names in the ads.
She's in a Guess ad that's featuring in Vogue or
not a Guess ad. It's a spread, so it's an editorial.
What has happened though, if it's a two page spread,
if you look very closely down the side, and who's

(01:15):
going to do that? Because I've had to zoom in
to see it, she isn't real. She is ai And
there's a big furor around this. People are saying to
boycott Vogue, to boycott Guess. But Vogue of all places,
which is a magazine that makes it that features humans
as models. They used to say there's only eight supermodels

(01:38):
in the world because to be so genetically perfect, yeah,
is not common proportionately.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
All that stuff, all that.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Stuff, and through the years we've had many different looks.
We've had the waif look, the heroine chic, the curvier,
the body positivity models. There have been a variety of different,
variety of different looks that have graced the pages of Vogue.
So you have to deal as a reader of Vogue
and a purveyor of these photographs. You have to set

(02:06):
your mind to the perfect the perfect genetics you're looking at,
and then all the air brushing that you're looking at.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, there was the whole campaign about women protesting about photoshopping.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
And stuff, photoshop out my roles. So this has taken
out the photoshop out my sausage role that I'm eating
during this photoshop. This has taken out, taken the next level.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's what you get for winging.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I guess, Oh no, this isn't what you get for winging.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
What do you mean, Well, you complained about it about
what the editor of the magazines says, okay, till what
I'll take you right out of the equation. So morally
this is okay?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Is it okay?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Well you're not You're not photoshopping someone. It's not a lie.
The person doesn't exist. Yeah, but it's the same as
like when an artist of the Renaissance did a painting
of someone and they would have license with it.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
But the difference is, or maybe there's no difference in
that that women, young girls look at this and see
this look as aspirational. They already have to deal with
As I said, that person has an amazing genetics and
now and the air brushing, but it's a different thing
together that they have created the most perfect human and
not only that they're putting models out of work. Vogue magazine,
who makes its living by featuring models is putting models

(03:20):
out of work.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
But then wouldn't there be solace in the fact that
you know that that's not real and that's not someone.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
But do you know that's the thing. It's not written
in big lettering across the top. You've got really hard
to see it. And now we've got AI influencers, remember
all that. Just a couple of weeks ago, we were
discovered that this. We were discovered when I was sitting
at the Soda pop fountain. It was discovered that a
number of influencers they're completely fake, completely AI.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
How you say influences are fake?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
But well, that's the point. Does it matter? It's interesting,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Next I'll be on merrit at first sight watch this space.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm going to out our network here on one of
our it was not our radio station. There was an
AI announcer. It's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
That's scary time.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
This is our version of this. There are millions of
humans wanting these jobs. Of course, don't give it to
a machine. AI was supposed to do our laundry and
the boring, boring stuff that we didn't want to do,
to free us up to be creative and interesting, and
instead where the servants to AI who are doing the creative,
beautiful poetry and painting.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
There is a young model right now who was about
to contemplate a Goosman breakfast burrito, but instead is going
to eat a lettuce leaf and an ice cube so
she can be a model. Now you don't have to
worry about that.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, now she's out of a job. Is that better?
I don't know. Watch this space, watch this space. I
keep saying, watch this space. I don't have a solution
for it. But there's lots of complaints for Vogue, and
guess will the pushback mean anything or do they just
say get used to it? Here we go.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
AI won't replace us, You get a monkey from the
Zuda replace us

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Now, that's too expensive.