I find this to be a slightly weird take - Lensa does not only give us an 'idealized' representation of ourselves, as per your first image it gives very stylized remixes of what you look like with different themes and whatnot. And so it's actually pretty distinct from beauty filters (which I do think are bad) - the fantastical (or even just illustrative, rather than photorealistic) nature of the images seems like it would make it easy not to identify with them too much.
Also, sorry to hear about your weight struggles. I was also overweight for most of high school and was a bit touchy on the topic in my 20s, though not to a huge extent. Cool that you progressed beyond that self image.
Fair enough, I don't hold this as a super strong opinion and it's based on what is definitely an incomplete picture of how people use Lensa—I could definitely have done a better job framing it as a worry about one potential way it could be used / responded to. But you're right that fantastical elements in images make it easier to disengage with those particular images as sites for identification
I find this to be a slightly weird take - Lensa does not only give us an 'idealized' representation of ourselves, as per your first image it gives very stylized remixes of what you look like with different themes and whatnot. And so it's actually pretty distinct from beauty filters (which I do think are bad) - the fantastical (or even just illustrative, rather than photorealistic) nature of the images seems like it would make it easy not to identify with them too much.
Also, sorry to hear about your weight struggles. I was also overweight for most of high school and was a bit touchy on the topic in my 20s, though not to a huge extent. Cool that you progressed beyond that self image.
Fair enough, I don't hold this as a super strong opinion and it's based on what is definitely an incomplete picture of how people use Lensa—I could definitely have done a better job framing it as a worry about one potential way it could be used / responded to. But you're right that fantastical elements in images make it easier to disengage with those particular images as sites for identification
That said, marketing lingo like "Magic Correction" still strikes me as... not great