Assignment 1 – Am I Pretty Yet?

Inspired by another project I am working on, I decided to utilize an online beauty tool which is designed to make your photos “more attractive.”  The best one I found for my purposes is www.pinkmirror.com. There is an option to alter the face based on the gender binary, and to screw with the site more, I selected female. I provided the site with an image, got an “improved image,” and fed that image back in. Below is the original image followed by 20 iterations.

I am so impressed with the results. I was surprised at how quickly it closed up to my nose. Thorugh the process, it asks whether or not the face is male or female, and gives a default based on what the site thinks. I had to correct the site to female, but only for the first 3 iterations. After 3 it began recognizing it as female, until iteration 17, when it began seeing it as male again. The other interesting artifact, is that the process failed to place the watermark in the same place on every image.