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AI Has a Hotness Problem
In the world of generated imagery, you’re either drop-dead gorgeous or a wrinkled, bug-eyed freak.
Caroline Mimbs Nyce
Caroline Mimbs Nyce is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
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