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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by shalmanese on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:40PM (#24682836)
Fun anecdote: When Alipay originally rolled out its "Pay by face" feature in stores, the uptake was far below their expectations. They did some research and realized that Chinese customers were so used to seeing their face with a beauty filter applied that the image of their unbeautified face was disconcerting and they avoided using face verification. Alipay rolled out automatic face beautification and their usage shot up.

https://qz.com/1657653/alipay-to-add-beauty-filters-to-facia...

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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by sundarurfriend on Sunday October 04, 2020 @11:23PM (#24684293)
The article doesn't say anything about usage shooting up after the change. To me it sounds equally plausible that this was a publicity move to get people curious about this "better than a beauty camera" feature and just use that as an opportunity to get the face-pay feature into the news.
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Re:Face retouching settings should be off by default by shalmanese on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:39AM (#24685432)
I heard about the usage going up from a PM at Alibaba.
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