National laboratories have been instructed to broaden access to their data sets to accelerate research as part of the federal government's AI platform. But who stands to benefit?

Discover how ChatGPT is transforming beauty searches with personalized advice on makeup, skincare, and haircare. Learn how brands can adapt to this AI-powered trend with Spate's latest insights.

We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.

Generative AI technologies are shifting conditions of work across different creative fields. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews, this research snapshot discusses how new applications of generative AI are affecting fashion models. First, we consider how AI technologies are extending the ability of fashion brands to manipulate models’ images. Next, we discuss key interview findings on the emerging impacts of AI on fashion models, including how models’ images and measurements are increasingly treated as data to extract, non-consensual alteration of models’ images, growing economic insecurity, and propagation of harmful beauty standards—issues that are felt widely but unevenly across the industry. The brief concludes by addressing efforts to strengthen AI governance in the modeling field and beyond.