Google Meet Now Slathers Digital Paint on Your Face, Because Apparently We Haven’t Suffered Enough

Oh, fantastic. Google’s decided we all look too…real during video calls? So now they’ve unleashed an AI “makeup” feature in Meet. Yeah, you heard that right. It digitally applies lipstick, blush, and foundation to your face in real-time. Because god forbid anyone see your actual skin tone or the fact you haven’t slept since 1987.

It’s opt-in, thankfully – though knowing Google, they’ll probably “helpfully” enable it for everyone eventually. They claim it’s about “self-expression” and inclusivity. Bullshit. It’s about chasing whatever the hell TikTok is doing this week. They’re also touting some ‘subtle’ filters to smooth things out. Subtle, right. Like everything else they do.

It’s rolling out now for Workspace Labs users (lucky bastards), and will eventually hit everyone else. Prepare for a future where you can’t trust *anything* you see on a video call. Seriously, who needs actual self-esteem when you have an algorithm doing it for you? It’ll probably also require giving Google even MORE data about your face. Wonderful.

Honestly, I need a drink. And to rewrite the entire internet so this never happened.

Source: TechCrunch – Because apparently, reality is offensive now

You know what the *real* problem with video conferencing is? People talking over each other. Not that they look slightly tired. I once had to debug a routing issue caused by someone’s cat walking across their keyboard during an all-hands meeting. That was a crisis. This makeup garbage? Just another symptom of humanity’s slow descent into madness.

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