Remini is an AI photo editing app that recently rose to #1 overall on the US App Store and overtook a thread on Instagram. It has over 22 million downloads and estimates that it has 20 million daily active users. Recently, a video of a TikTok user taking a selfie with AI turning it into a professional looking photo has gone viral. The #remini hashtag has accumulated 1.4 billion views.
Select 8-12 photos of yourself with different facial expressions, angles, and backgrounds, and select your gender to create an AI Face Photo. Choose the style and model you want. Wait a few minutes and your AI photo will be created. Swipe left and right while viewing multiple photos one by one to choose the one you like.
It's easy to see funny photos, but there's also a critical eye. This is because AI distorts the body in the process of generating a picture. It was expressed as a slimmer body than the original, which inspired some to go on a diet, but to others, it felt like an unnecessary compulsion. Some even expressed that AI has 'fat phobia'.
Just as music needs to be popular on TikTok to be successful, it seems that image creation using AI is the same. I think that success comes only when it is popular in a place where many people are active, such as Lensa AI in the past. I can feel that TikTok is the place where images and videos are used the most in the world right now.
There has always been a desire to transform one's own body into a desired shape using Photoshop. There are many critical views on such photo editing, such as whether it is the body you really want or not just to deceive yourself and others.
I am also afraid that AI telling us what a good photo is will make us lose the ability to think about what is good.
