Levi’s to Use AI-Generated Models to ‘Increase Diversity’ - We can't find enough non-obese blacks to be models, therefore we must AI generate them.

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Fashion brand Levi Strauss & Co has announced a partnership with digital fashion studio Lalaland.ai to make custom artificial intelligence (AI) generated avatars in what it says will increase diversity among its models.


San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co — often shortened to just Levi’s — is perhaps best known for its wide range of blue jeans. Founded in 1853, the company says it is one of the world’s largest brand-name apparel companies and is a global leader in jeanswear. It has chosen to partner with Lalaland.ai in order to use its advanced AI to create a wider range of avatars to model its clothes.


Lalaland.ai was founded in 2019 in Amsterdam and says it uses “advanced artificial intelligence” to give fashion brands and retailers the ability to create hyper-realistic models of every body type, age, size, and skin tone. It isn’t the only company in the AI-generated model game either. Earlier this month, Deep Agency launched what it describes as a photo studio without cameras, people, or a physical location.


Levi Strauss says that it generally has one model for each of its products, but understands that buyers might want to shop for clothes with models that look more like them.


“We believe our models should reflect our consumers, which is why we’re continuing to diversify our human models in terms of size and body type, age and skin color,” the company says, but goes on to explain that working with real people isn’t enough to meet its goals.

The partnership with Lalaland.ai is one that Levi Strauss says can likely assist the brand in an endeavor to expand the number of models that each line of clothing has so that customers can see Levi’s products on more models that look like themselves, which it says will create “a more personal and inclusive shopping experience.”


“While AI will likely never fully replace human models for us, we are excited for the potential capabilities this may afford us for the consumer experience,” Dr. Amy Gershkoff Bolles, global head of digital and emerging technology strategy at Levi Strauss & Co says.


“We see fashion and technology as both an art and a science, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lalaland.ai, a company with such high-quality technology that can help us continue on our journey for a more diverse and inclusive customer experience.”


Levi Strauss says that diversity, equity, and inclusion are a “top priority” for the company and says that while AI-generated models are a way to help reach its goals in this area, it’s not the only solution it is using. The company says that over the past year, it has been working to assure that not only its own workforce is diverse, but that those both in front of and behind the camera reflect its “broad consumer base.”


From what Levi Strauss describes, it doesn’t sound as though the company intends to do away with photography, but given the sheer volume of avatars that can be created with LaLaLand.ai, real photos of actual people will likely be outnumbered by models that don’t actually exist.


Levi Strauss isn’t the only fashion brand to embrace AI models. Lalaland.ai notes it also works with Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and the Otto Group. The average person will likely never be able to tell that a majority of the models they see wearing any of these brands’ clothes aren’t actual people.
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The "diversity" thing is just a cover. It's so they don't have to pay for their own shoots and all the labor involved in it (scouting, photographers, the models themselves, etc.).
 
JUST STOP.
In Austria, Niggers are under 1% of the population. THEY ARE ON HALF OF THE FUCKING ADS.
Meanwhile, Arabs and Turks, who have a significant population are never represented.
It is fucking bizarre.
 
so the only way to meet their inclusivity goals and show diversity is to make up a bunch of fucking people?
 
A.I. now replacing clothing models. soon is the day when ai porn makes onlyfans whores obsolete. i for one cant wait till simps can just use AI to get what they want rather than pay money to some dumb e-thot. they either now have to learn to code or start giving blow jobs in alleys to support their drug habits. total onlyfans death is coming.
 
Divine right to rule said:
JUST STOP.
In Austria, Niggers are under 1% of the population. THEY ARE ON HALF OF THE FUCKING ADS.
Meanwhile, Arabs and Turks, who have a significant population are never represented.
It is fucking bizarre.
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It's not actual diversity, it's a very specific "diversity" to push certain groups to the to of the stack. Indians can get to the back of the bus, trannies and especially nigger trannies ride up front.
 
Why do they need models? arent they making the same jeans since for almost the past century?
 
So when do we get the articles about someone's kid noticing attractive black people only exist in advertisements?
 
Who had the modeling industry on their predicting card as the next industry AI takes over?

I'm enjoying the continuing of AI taking over all the once thought safe jobs while all the dirty blue collar jobs are being lefty alone.
 
The annoying part is gonna be for online shoppers who rely on the site's content to make up their mind about what the product would be like. Before they had to be aware of it misrepresenting the garment's color, weight, quality and fit, but now they are literally watching something that doesn't even exists.
 
Increase diversity, eh? Let's take a look at their website to see just how 🤮white🤮 these existing models are.

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Oh yeah, I can see what they mean. There's still one white person left. Can't stop until the great replacement (which definitely isn't happening by the way) is complete.

And yes, those are real prices. They're charging three hundred fucking dollars for a pair of jeans, all while making excuses to stop paying models. I hope a meteor hits their headquarters while they're all inside of it.
 
Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
The annoying part is gonna be for online shoppers who rely on the site's content to make up their mind about what the product would be like. Before they had to be aware of it misrepresenting the garment's color, weight, quality and fit, but now they are literally watching something that doesn't even exists.
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Its why I basically dont shop online anymore. Everything I order from every site I order it from ends up being cheap shit that ceases to fulfill the function I bought it for within a month. Shady sellers already use some 3D CGI model for their preview images, imagine how much worse it can get.

Still pretty funny how in order to improve black diversity, they closed positions for black people because they couldn't find enough and replaced them with AI. Do you feel represented yet?
 
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