Ten models that exist only in the digital realm have made it to the finals of what’s being billed as the world’s first beauty pageant involving AI.
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Beauty pageant contestants have always been judged by their looks, and in recent decades, their do-gooderly (ph) deeds and their personalities. But one thing has remained consistent throughout beauty pageant history, and that’s the fact that you generally had to be a human being to enter. That is now changing. Models created using generative artificial intelligence are competing in the inaugural Miss AI pageant this month. NPR’s Chloe Veltman has been