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First "Miss AI" contest sparks ire for unrealistic beauty standards


Influencer platform's controversial contest awarded prizes to three nonexistent people.

The "winner" is a fictional Instagram influencer from Morocco named Kenza Layli with more than 200,000 followers, but the pageant is already attracting criticism from women in the AI space. "In a field with such a glaring lack of gender diversity, it's unsurprising that it has come to using AI generating images of what ideal women look like," said Luccioni. A screenshot of the Instagram account for AI-generated influencer "Kenza Layli," which won 1st place in the Miss AI contest.

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