A real-time special effect has flooded TikTok in recent weeks, chiselling chins, plumping lips and serving Kardashian-style make-up contours for anyone with a smartphone.
While it’s being touted as a remarkably convincing beauty filter, AI researchers say the effect leaves no clues to its presence, giving it unprecedented capacity to manipulate people inside and outside an app that has elicited scrutiny from governments around the world.
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