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Levi’s AI Models, Lemon8, and #DarkFeminineEnergy on The Viral List

We round up the most viral moments of the week…

Written and Edited by the YPulse Editorial Team

Mar 31 2023
North America

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Levi’s wants to make their models more diverse by…making them computer generated?
Lemon8 is a new ByteDance social platform is going viral in the U.S. and U.K. as TikTok faces threats of ban
#DarkFeminineEnergy has young women on TikTok embracing their power and seductive prowess

Levi’s is facing backlash for planning to use AI models to “increase diversity” Levi’s recently announced they plan to start using models made by artificial intelligence—but their motivation has the internet upset. The brand is partnering with “digital fashion studio Lalaland.ai to make custom artificial intelligence (AI) generated avatars” with the intention of increasing diversity among their models. Lalaland.ai is designed to provide brands and retailers with hyper-realistic models that can appear in any size, skin tone, age, and body type. But many are questioning why Levi’s can’t find and use actual models to reflect diversity; on Twitter, users...