Participants in the trend used an AI-driven tool, created by a user on the editing app CapCut, to alter themselves to look larger.

The filter comes amid discourse around the decline of body positivity and representation in fashion and online spaces.

The AI search startup Perplexity just proposed a bid for acquiring (and transforming) TikTok, per a company blog post published Friday. “Perplexity is singularly positioned to rebuild the TikTok ...