It’s not new. Once it became possible to shop hi-res photographs, it became standard to narrow fashion models slightly in order to make them look even thinner.

I learned about it from documentaries intended to highlight the unrealistic appearance expectations that are driven by media.

It’s in the first paragraph.

Stanford University acknowledged Tuesday that artificial intelligence was used to alter a photograph of three students for promotional materials, replacing a male student with a Black woman and making another student appear thinner

I agree they effectively replaced the woman too, and gave the guy in the middle a haircut, cheek bone enhancements, eyebrow grooming and a bigger smile 😬

They actually changed all of them. It’s kind of odd that they even photographed anyone at all?