Let’s Talk Mental Health
When the Filter Doesn’t Match the Mirror
Clip: Season 2 Episode 1 | 1m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
An AI-filtered photo illustrates the gap between online images and everyday appearance.
What happens when the image on a screen doesn’t match the person in the mirror? Dr. Kyle Boerke uses an original and AI-filtered photograph to illustrate how dramatically technology can change someone’s appearance. He discusses the pressure these images can create for young people developing their sense of identity and self-confidence.
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Let’s Talk Mental Health
When the Filter Doesn’t Match the Mirror
Clip: Season 2 Episode 1 | 1m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
What happens when the image on a screen doesn’t match the person in the mirror? Dr. Kyle Boerke uses an original and AI-filtered photograph to illustrate how dramatically technology can change someone’s appearance. He discusses the pressure these images can create for young people developing their sense of identity and self-confidence.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipand you're comparing, "Do I look as good as my friend does?
Is my outfit as nice as theirs?"
But now they're comparing themselves through social media, they're comparing themselves with people who they don't even know, who might not be real.
And they're individuals who are living a life that they can't possibly live up to.
And they're getting depressed 'cause they're like, "Why can't I look like that person?"
Well, that person isn't even a part of their normal sphere of life.
- Yes.
- Even if that person is real, there are filters and, you know, everything else that goes in it.
And they also happen to be posting from some tropical island with a beautiful background, which is not real daily life.
- Yeah.
Right.
- But you're exactly correct, is we have a huge epidemic of, especially our teenage girls, but boys are not, you know, immune to this as well, where they do not feel comfortable with who they are because the image that they are sending out to people is filtered with AI filters and all of this.
And then they look in the mirror and it doesn't match.
I did ask my wife permission for this one, just so you know.
But I actually asked my wife, I'm like, "Hey, would you mind if we took a picture and then filtered a picture?"
Because I think it's something to hear us talk about, but it's something else to see.
So on the screen there will be a picture of my wife.
She's beautiful, however, when you take that same picture and run it through AI filter, my wife does not look like the same person.
It is a supermodel that is an artificial version of her.
And if you look at who I am in the mirror and who I am in this AI generated, you know, filtered picture, it is no wonder why we have a whole host of our teenagers who don't feel comfortable with what they are in real life.
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