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A flood of faces - by Shephali Bhatt

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An entire attention economy was built around the pull of a human face. Now that same digital machinery might be inadvertently devaluing it

A flood of faces An entire attention economy was built around the pull of a human face. Now that same digital machinery might be inadvertently devaluing it Shephali Bhatt Jun 10, 2026 273 44 86 Share A flood of faces: AI-generated representational image It first hit me over a year ago. Sitting at the old Mokai cafe on Chapel Road in Bandra, I looked around and every face looked familiar. As if I had seen all of them in a Reel at some point. Familiar not in a way that makes you feel at ease in a room, but that dulls the excitement of coming across a human face for the first time. A few months l

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