'You can't control everything': the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create 'AI face'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Guardian

Plastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the rise of “AI face”, as more and more clients arrive in their offices with unrealistic AI-generated visions of what they want to look like.

Dr Nora Nugent, a cosmetic surgeon from Tunbridge Wells, has seen this first hand. Clients have started coming to her office with photos of themselves beautified by AI and a false expectation that those results are achievable with surgery. She is also the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and says many colleagues are having similar experiences.

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People using AI chatbots to generate their ideal faces are increasingly arriving at surgeons’ offices with briefs demanding flawless skin, sharply sculpted cheekbones, refined noses and near-perfect symmetry – standards that are too time consuming, prohibitively expensive and, in many cases, physically unattainable.

While AI can control every single pixel, “surgery certainly doesn’t work on that microscopic detailed level”, according Dr Alex Karidis, a surgeon based in west London.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/23/rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face-cosmetic-surgery

[tanyev]

1. People with way too much time and money.

[niyad]

2. And not nearly enough brain cells that arc!!!

When I get my hair cut, I take along a picture of the cut I would like. I explain to the cutter that I realize results will not be identical, just so the cut is somewhere in the vicinity. After all, different hair, no stylist, etc. They seem to appreciate my awareness.

[RockRaven]

3. I, for one, welcome people announcing to the world that they are shallow morons via facial appearance

Big time saver for us all!

[niyad]

4. "Heeeeere's your sign", as Bill Engvall says.

[underpants]

5. We truly are getting closer and closer to "Brazil"

Terry Gilliam movie in 1985 dystopian science fiction black comedy film.
DeNiro has a small but crucial role in it.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

[thought crime]

10. Mrs. Terrain: "There's been a little complication with my complication."

[perfessor]

6. I've earned every wrinkle

And I’m going to keep them!

H/t to my wife, who has said the same about her gray hair for years.

[msongs]

7. give em all lips like sharon osbourne

[Skittles]

8. she just looks ridiculous

clownish

add Ozempic and -

[WestMichRad]

9. Egads!

I had to look… shouldn’t have done that.
(Shudder!)

[Skittles]

11. she was a lovely woman

I think plastic surgery is OK for tweaking to look better but it's a big problem when people try to look age 20 again - and having lots of money seems to make it worse.