{"id":253230,"date":"2026-05-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/you-cant-control-everything-the-rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:15:11","slug":"you-cant-control-everything-the-rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/you-cant-control-everything-the-rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You can\u2019t control everything\u2019: the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create \u2018AI face\u2019 | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018You can\u2019t control everything\u2019: the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create \u2018AI face\u2019 | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/23\/rise-in-plastic-surgeons-asked-to-create-ai-face-cosmetic-surgery<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-23 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Plastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the rise of \u201cAI face\u201d, as more and more clients arrive in their offices with unrealistic AI-generated visions of what they want to look like.<\/p>\n

Dr Nora Nugent, a cosmetic surgeon from Tunbridge Wells, has seen this first hand. Clients have started coming to her office with photos of themselves beautified by AI and a false expectation that those results are achievable with surgery. She is also the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and says many colleagues are having similar experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can only predict an increase, given the rate AI has been incorporated into every aspect of life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

People using AI chatbots to generate their ideal faces are increasingly arriving at surgeons\u2019 offices with briefs demanding flawless skin, sharply sculpted cheekbones, refined noses and near-perfect symmetry \u2013 standards that are too time consuming, prohibitively expensive and, in many cases, physically unattainable.<\/p>\n

While AI can control every single pixel, \u201csurgery certainly doesn\u2019t work on that microscopic detailed level\u201d, according Dr Alex Karidis, a surgeon based in west London.<\/p>\n

For many clients, however, those expectations are shaped long before they ever meet a surgeon. Karidis and Nugent describe how psychologically effective AI-generated images can be in defining \u2013 and reinforcing \u2013 clients\u2019 aesthetic ideals.<\/p>\n

Nugent said: \u201cOnce you see an image, it\u2019s wired into you.\u201dKaridis agreed, describing AI images as being \u201cseared\u201d into patients\u2019 minds, and said colleagues had recently been inundated with them.<\/p>\n

Surgeons are also keen to emphasise that cosmetic surgery outcomes are far from guaranteed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe patient has to understand that there is human variation in how they heal, how they age and what can be done\u201d said Nugent. \u201cI say to patients beforehand: it\u2019s not limitless what I can do in surgery. Neither of us control everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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