People are already morphing themselves to fit a machine’s idea of who they should be. Some of us are curating ourselves on social media to increase our follower engagement, to the point that who we really are and how we present online become confused and conflated. And when those followers see enough of these curated identities, some of them begin to hate who they are or how they look, and they starve their bodies to conform to a new standard that now surrounds them. Others click on links recommended to them by algorithms, engaging with that content, and get drawn further and further down the
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