TikTok Bold Glamour filter accused of causing anxiety
A TikTok filter was accused of distorting reality, reinforcing unattainable beauty standards, and causing anxiety, leading beauty professionals and others to call for it t o be banned. Launched in March 2023, TikTok's Bold Glamour offer ed users a flawless complexion and irons out skin spots and was downloaded millions of times and embraced enthusiatically by teenage girls and others . Beauty professionals railed against it, with some calling it 'profoundly disturbing' and warning it could easily impact users' mental health. Beauty brand Dove encouraged users to post videos turning their backs on the filter using hashtags such as #TurnYourBack and #NoDigitalDistortion. TikTok had previously been found to have automatically touched up the videos of some users' faces without notifiying them or asking for their consent. System 🤖 Bold Glamour Documents 📃 TikTok Bold Glamour videos Operator: Bytedance/T ikTok Developer: Bytedance/TikTok Country: USA; G lobal Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Create flawless complexion Technology: Machine learning Issue: Safety; Transparency
- Date it happened
- 2023-03-01
- Organisation involved
- TikTok
- Product, system or model
- Bold Glamour
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