When Your Face Isn’t Fully Yours Anymore
Living Through the Rise of AI Models and Deepfake Identity Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to “own” your face — not in a poetic way, but in the very real sense that your face can be recorded, recreated, and circulated without you ever touching the project. In the modeling world, your face is a job, a brand, and a piece of yourself you share with the public. And with the rise of AI-generated images and deepfakes, that boundary has started to blur in ways none of us were prepared for. Tom Graham’s TED Talk about the creativity and danger of deepfakes made something click for me. I’ve seen the exciting side of AI — the part that feels like the future. I’ve also seen the part that feels like a warning. And the strange part is that both exist at the same time. Before I talk about the risks… I’ve worked with an AI-modeling company under a proper contract. They captured my movements, expressions, and angles to build an AI version of me. Everything was transparent. My priv...
