@stephaniewalter yikes, seems like it was just a mistake "I'll use AI to help this photo fit better". I feel like so many people are going to fall into these problems by not realizing the implications.
Years ago, long before AI, a publisher decided to edit a book cover photo of mine to make my photo more smiley. So it's not new, but before it was definitely intentional, now your intention might be to create a better crop of the photo, and instead you get this sort of thing.
@rachelandrew @stephaniewalter And platforms could possibly start doing this by default – rather than letterbox or crop, have AI extend the image to the correct aspect ratio
Smartphones are already automatically making manipulations to photos taken – blurring the line between authenticity and retouching
And eg. FaceTime adjusts your eyes in realtime to adjust for the offset of the front-camera and make eye contact look like eye contact
What’s the next step of approachability enchantment?