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A skin AI company says general chatbots see problems that aren't there

Haut.AI, which sells skin analysis technology to beauty brands, released a public test called SkinBench on October 27 along with its own skin model. In the company's results, six general-purpose AI models reported eye puffiness in roughly 95% to 100% of images where there was none, compared with about 18% for its own model. The results come from a company selling a competing product, and Google's Gemini beat it on some measures.

Why it matters

Plenty of people now upload selfies to chatbots for skin advice. Whoever ran this test, it's a reason to be careful with an AI skin verdict.

The story so far

  1. Haut.AI releases SkinBench and its own skin model.

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