What the perfect man and woman look like, according to AI

According to the findings of the Bulimia Project, artificial intelligence tools trained on social media images found what people tend to prefer... looks-wise.

Episode Transcript

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Ninety seven point one with Toby andChilly in the Morning Toby and Chilly in
the Morning at ninety seven point onewash FM, Friday, DC at eight
sixty six ninety seven forty three sixtyone. You want to hear some crazy
stuff. This organization called the BulimiaProject commissioned to study and they used AI
to create the perfect the look ofthe perfect man and the perfect woman.

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And wow, these pictures are insane. Well, like, the woman kind
of looks like a younger Blake Lively, you know, perfect abs, and
obviously the male looks like who doyou think that celebrity would be like?
The male like a dark haired JakeGillenhall, Yeah, you know what I
mean, like especially in the faceor the guy at the end looks like

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that Backstreet point eight. What's theguy the Backstreet point that has the facial
hair and the die very I can'tremember his name, aj or something.
He looks like he looks like abit boy band. Yeah, Like,
yeah, there's no way I isa guy could ever look like that.
Dude. But let's make it clearthat AI is only putting out what humans
or Americans think, right, becauseit's scouring the web for basically your data,

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and at some point in time ifyou said, Wow, this person
looks great, it remembers that.So yeah, forty percent of the images
overall unrealistic body types. According tothe shower, thirty seven percent of these
images of women unrealistic body types.For men forty three percent unrealistic body types.
Like you know, it would begreat and probably more helpful to our

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psyche is if AI were to generateimages of what Americans really do look like.
Yeah, I know, you know, like a little bit of dad
bod thing happening, or women witha little bit of gut roll back like
you know what I mean, Like, that's what we really look like.
I would see myself in those immania, like, you know what, that's
true. That is what we normallylook like. Forget what the magazines and

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the advertisers and all these people saywhat we should look like. This is
reality. Well, I'm going tostart doing random searches every day for show
me ideal human beings with scars orflaws or blemishes. Wow. Anyway,
if you want to read more aboutthis, check out the autoby and Chili
pagetwashf dot com. You can seethese pictures and more. They're generated by
AI Crazy ninety seven point one.Wash at them with Toby and Chilly in

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the morning,