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Updated · NPR · Jul 22

Jia Tolentino Examines Instagram Face and AI's Role in Beauty Standards

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Updated · NPR · Jul 22

Jia Tolentino Examines Instagram Face and AI's Role in Beauty Standards

3 articles · Updated · NPR · Jul 22

Jia Tolentino argues that plastic surgery has become so normalized and hard to detect that it is reshaping how people judge what is real.
Her analysis centers on the "Instagram face" aesthetic, which she uses to trace how online beauty ideals have spread and hardened.
Tolentino links that shift to AI, saying evolving beauty standards now increasingly dovetail with technologies that generate, filter, and refine appearance.

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Jia Tolentino Analyzes 'Instagram Face,' Plastic Surgery, and AI's Impact on Beauty

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Instagram Face- Social media has influenced my perception of beauty. What about yours? Check out the article “The Age of Instagram Face” by Jia Tolentino in the New Yorker :) #instagramface Please

As AI and surgery create 'perfect' faces, are we losing our ability to connect with what makes us truly human?

When AI defines beauty, is it creating a new ideal or just amplifying our oldest and most damaging human biases?

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Jia Tolentino Analyzes 'Instagram Face,' Plastic Surgery, and AI's Impact on Beauty

The New Yorker5h ago

Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare | The New Yorker

Instagram5h ago

Instagram Face- Social media has influenced my perception of beauty. What about yours? Check out the article “The Age of Instagram Face” by Jia Tolentino in the New Yorker :) #instagramface Please

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