The first in-print cover of Dazed Beauty magazine comprises four covers featuring CGI-enhanced shoots and AI-generated looks. As beauty becomes a space for broader creative conversations, its aesthetics encapsulate the wider shift towards being defined by technology and platforms.

With her flawlessly rendered appearance and dramatic digital narratives, virtual influencer Lil’ Miquela has been challenging ideas of authenticity on Instagram since 2016. Why are brands and social media users embracing these CGI celebrities and could they ever replace their human counterparts?

Creativity is something we regard as uniquely human, but new developments in AI are shaking up the world of art, literature, and music. Canvas8 spoke to Marcus du Sautoy, the author ofThe Creativity Code, to understand how machine learning could expand our creative potential.

Special effects animators estimate that we’re less than ten years away from creating computer-generated characters that are almost indistinguishable from their human counterparts. As CGI and AI edge closer to replicating human likeness and behaviour, will being ‘real’ matter to future audiences?