Gia (Jia) Tolentino

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

They have served the interests of those in power for basically all of human history in every human culture.

But there's something interesting about it right now in that it seems more explicitly anti human right now than ever before.

There seemed to be something that's dovetailing with

the age of AI.

And AI is where the consequences of Instagram face

They are already quite clear, right?

The fact that so many of the most visible women on the internet kind of resemble each other, have this look that if you're on Instagram you can probably close your eyes and summon, you know, the fact that that is kind of what a woman on the internet looks like to

The data scraping engines that are powering AI, you know, the Washington Post did this great investigation a couple of years ago.

They asked, you know, AI image generators, multiple of them, to produce an image of a normal woman.

almost every face that was generated was white, young, and beautiful.

You know, i there's already been such a distinct effect and one wonders

AI is something that I

personally, you know, take issue with for the way that it kind of

programmatically positions what is specifically human as inferior for being specifically human, for being bounded, for being imperfect.

When in fact our boundedness, our imperfection, our our kind of imminence, that's that's the best thing about us.

That's what makes us actually human.

And so the way that all of this is manifesting through the face is really what I wanted to write about.

One of the

Paradoxes at the center of this essay are

Is also that plastic surgery is becoming both detectable and more extreme at the same time.

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