The algorithmic colonization of the human face: beauty, bias, and the digital guillotine
| dc.contributor.author | Kılıç, Salih | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-06T07:58:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.department | Fakülteler, Tıp Fakültesi, Cerrahi Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü | |
| dc.description.abstract | Dear Editor, Let us cut through the algorithmic fog. That innocuous-looking app or “cutting-edge” clinic software promising to enhance beauty is not a tool—it is a digital colonizer annexing our most intimate territory: self-perception. Facial analysis AI, draped in the lab coat of scientific objectivity, is phrenology rebooted for the 21st century. Today, high-end esthetic clinics from Seoul to São Paulo have traded nuanced patient dialog for algorithmic assessments. A glowing screen now dictates how your nose deviates from a “Caucasian ideal,” or how your jawline lacks “angularity.” Ethnically distinct features are flagged as defects. Surgeons, once artists of individuality, are reduced to technicians. The consultation room becomes a tribunal, and the algorithm the judge, jury, and executioner. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00146-025-02512-6 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 2 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0951-5666 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1435-5655 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-105012835077 | |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q1 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02512-6 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12462/23381 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 41 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | WOS:001547037800001 | |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | Q2 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Springer London | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | AI and Society | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.title | The algorithmic colonization of the human face: beauty, bias, and the digital guillotine | |
| dc.type | Letter |












