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The existence of the feature is not a problem, that’s just where technology is heading. For individual use it could be enabled, if desired

But it being made default and thereby de facto saying that everyone needs it is absurd. There is no way that something like this is not damaging to society in the long run

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I wonder, however, if smoothing skin makes for a lighter (compressed) image, resulting in bandwidth savings. We don't need to see skin details in a work conversation, just expressions.

Perhaps the feature should just be renamed/rebranded to something like "smartly reduce image details to save bandwidth"?

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