{"id":11185,"date":"2006-08-13T20:34:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T20:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/08\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-aesthetic-overlords.html"},"modified":"2006-08-13T20:34:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T20:34:22","slug":"i_for_one_welcome_our_new_aesthetic_overlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/i_for_one_welcome_our_new_aesthetic_overlo\/","title":{"rendered":"I, for one, welcome our new aesthetic overlords&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creepiness Level = Orange (Elevated): Some Israeli researchers have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.tau.ac.il\/~tommer\/beautification\/\" \/>proposed a tool<\/a> that, after analyzing a library of beautiful faces, can adjust anyone&#8217;s features to make them more beautiful.  Umm&#8230; no, please?<br \/>\nYes, my livelihood comes from making a tool that&#8217;s used to propagate standardized ideals of beauty, but somehow having the computer make the call on am-I-hot-or-not, then &#8220;fix&#8221; my various deficiencies, starts getting uncomfortably weird&#8211;a little too <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenplastic.com\/lyrics\/fitterhappier.php\"><i>Fitter Happier<\/i><\/a>.  I&#8217;m reminded of a quote from Francis Bacon: &#8220;There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.&#8221;  Here&#8217;s hoping it stays that way.  [Via Russell Williams]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creepiness Level = Orange (Elevated): Some Israeli researchers have proposed a tool that, after analyzing a library of beautiful faces, can adjust anyone&#8217;s features to make them more beautiful. Umm&#8230; no, please? Yes, my livelihood comes from making a tool that&#8217;s used to propagate standardized ideals of beauty, but somehow having the computer make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}