The artificial gaze

The entanglement of AI, unrealistic beauty standards, and appearance labor

Hi, and welcome back to Untangled, a newsletter and podcast about technology, people, and power. In August:

• I wrote about the ‘doom loop of synthetic data.’

• I reflected on how I want time to feel — slow and expansive, with each day justified on its own terms.

• I compared the public discourse on AI to the early days of crypto, and then reshared my very first…