When AI Becomes the Mirror
What Google's new virtual try-on reveals about identity, intimacy, and our evolving relationship with tech.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how tech doesn’t just shape our tools — it shapes our self-image.
Literally.
Take Google’s new Try It On feature. You upload a photo of yourself, and it uses AI to dress you in that outfit you were eyeing online. No model. No filter. Just you — algorithmically rendered and styled, ready for purchase.
It’s marketed as convenience. Confidence. Personalization.
But at Tech & Soul, we can’t help but ask: When the machine starts modeling our bodies, what else is it modeling in the process?
Because AI isn’t just optimizing shopping carts — it’s influencing how we see ourselves, how we trust technology, and how we form connections, both digital and real.
We’re entering an era where the lines are blurry: between tools and companions, convenience and control, simulation and selfhood.
So we’re talking about it.
Live. With you. Next week.
🎙️ Tech & Soul Live: AI vs. Everybody
🗓️ Tuesday, June 10
🕕 3 PM PT | 6PM ET
📍 On LinkedIn Live
We'll unpack where AI is going — and how we, as creatives, consumers, and complicated humans, want to meet it there.
It’s a conversation about how we work, how we create, how we relate — and what it means to keep the soul intact while the tech evolves.
Come curious. Come skeptical. Come in community.
We're building this in real time.
– Lynne