A side question: do people want digital models that look like real people?
Shudu and her peers _look_ CGI, and I think that's deliberate. Compare the Shudu instagram with the output of a modern GAN. I think this is likely an intentional aesthetic choice. What if part of the appeal of a digital model is it can look both like and not like a person, in a way that is controllable and expressive?
A separate question from the aesthetics is, could it be better to "objectify" something that's already an object, than to do that to a real person?
Shudu and her peers _look_ CGI, and I think that's deliberate. Compare the Shudu instagram with the output of a modern GAN. I think this is likely an intentional aesthetic choice. What if part of the appeal of a digital model is it can look both like and not like a person, in a way that is controllable and expressive?
A separate question from the aesthetics is, could it be better to "objectify" something that's already an object, than to do that to a real person?
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