The Bulimia Project, an eating disorder awareness group, asked an AI to produce the perfect man and woman.
Gentlemen do truly prefer blondes, and 'tall, dark, and handsome' are the features of an ideal man.
This is according to artificial intelligence tools that learn from the billions of images on social media sites depicting beautiful people.
The Bulimia Project, an eating disorder awareness group, asked AI to produce the 'perfect' male and female bodies, according to what gets most engagement on social media.
Researchers from the organization found that the most desirable women had blonde hair, olive skin, brown eyes, and slim figures, while the 'perfect' male had dark, smoldering eyes, chiseled cheekbones and defined muscles.
Most of the AI results appeared to play up outdated standards of beauty - caucasian yet tanned, slim yet muscular, and overwhelmingly blonde - which hints at the tool's implicit biases.
A majority of images generated showed blonde women wi...