Are we deceived by computer generated beauty?

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Originally Posted by iron_jones

That's not being deceived.
The Miss Germany on the right is way more attractive.
Neytiri IS better looking than most women because she was based off of the golden ratio of facial symmetry, and has no flaws. I don't see how it's manipulation. If you think a face is beautiful, then you do. Everyone desires beauty when it comes to themselves and the people around them.

But is it not at least somewhat manipulative to use special geometrical features to trigger some inherent instinctive pattern for perceiving beauty? Its little like manufacturing a lure for fish that exaggerate the sorts of movement that triggers reflexes in the fish that makes it attack. In commercials and other contexts these beautiful, artificial faces can perhaps manipulate us to buy things, or to support things we should not have supported without them. At least it is some kind of risk. And can it not be some risk that we loose ourselves in dreams of unobtainable and unrealistic beauty, while we miss out on the real beauty out there in the world?

At the same thing maybe these images can make women trying to manipulate themselvws (plastic surgery and other stuff) just to be like the computer generated faces in order to be more attractive. Is it not something of a danger in that?