Bovell: E-commerce modeling is vulnerable to AI due to low pose variability
Sinead Bovell · Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell) · Apr 24, 2023 · at 4:36
Sinead Bovell is a futurist and fashion model discussing why AI automation was bound to disrupt e-commerce modeling before other creative fields.
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“And the clear cut for me was fashion especially when it comes to e-commerce a line or a segment of fashion where it's not necessarily about these creative big movements for a fashion model, but instead just small variations in the posing. And that in some ways is somewhat robotic already. We don't have a lot of variability into the types of poses we can do or the things that we can try when it comes to e-commerce. It has to look good on a website.”
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