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Seems like a form of virtual eugenics, a sensorship or the body in a way that's oppressively homogenizing. I feel like this is part of why zuck leverages cartoons to market metaverse for corporate settings, or why all the retail-safe anodyne pop muzak is full or autotune and flawless software-based overproduction. Not to be overly dramatic but imagine you are enraged but all anyone can see is a tranquil smile and your words replaced by positive endorsement; you have no mouth and you must scream

On the plus side I can see this being used to self-anonymize by individuals who want to protect themselves from facial recognition or other forms of id from undesirable parties, but that's more of a coping tactic for a society that fails to incorporate any honest ethical QC into product development to begin with.




I don't think this is directly more homogenizing than (say) makeup, which has the added property of being cemented by centuries of public presentation and beauty expectations.

That being said, I think there are probably lesser social ills that come from these technologies, ills that we'll have to adapt to. For example, we know that human interaction and emotional feedback are an important part of child development; it's as of yet unclear what effect this will have.


v-tubers must fill you with existential terror. Like, you look at Korone but all you see is Moloch.




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