人工智能正逐渐成为我们生活的一部分。比如，现在我们可以让时尚软件成为我们的私人造型师。一些软件可以用我们已经拥有的衣服搭配出许多套装组合，帮助我们打破 “快时尚” 的风格约束；还有一些软件可以根据天气或场合为我们提供风格或搭配组合的建议。不过，人工智能真的能理解我们的审美和时尚需求吗？本文浅谈让人工智能成为私人造型师的利与弊。
词汇：fashion 时尚
1 From virtual assistants and proofreading essays to improvements in healthcare, it seems that artificial intelligence, or AI, is becoming an increasingly larger part of our daily lives and most industries, but would you trust AI to choose your wardrobe?
2 There are now numerous apps that create virtual wardrobes, giving users insight into their current fashion style and giving tips to elevate it. One of these apps is Indyx, which describes itself as a ‘one–stop digital wardrobe app unlocking the potential of what you already own’. Indyx encourages you to be environmentally conscious by combining the clothes you already have in your closet, which could mean breaking a cycle of fast fashion, helping you to shop smarter. There are similar apps out there too, like Whering, which can create entire outfits for you based on weather or occasion, and StyleDNA, which assesses the colours that suit you best.
3 It’s not only consumers using AI, but shops too. Clothing retailer M&S started using AI in 2024 to give advice to shoppers on outfit choices based on answers they give in an online quiz. They are asked about their body shape and style preferences, and are then given relevant outfit ideas with the aim being to personalise online interactions. Stephen Langford, M&S’s director of online, has said the quiz can help choose outfits from 40 million options.
4 However, there are sceptics within the fashion industry. Michelle Barrett is a personal stylist with Capsule Closet Stylist. She warns that consumers must remember that AI doesn’t really understand your needs or looks – it’s simply creating statistically–plausible looks for you. She says that when it comes to choosing colours that suit you best, for example, “the apps get different results each time. The algorithm is placing you into predetermined boxes based on the questions you answer and forms you fill out”.
5 So, considering this, will you use AI to help choose your outfits?
测验与练习
一、根据文章内容选出正确的段落。
1. Which paragraph contains criticism of AI fashion apps?
二、根据文章内容选出正确的选项。
1. Indyx is the most popular app for reducing fast fashion.
a. True
b. False
c. Not given
2. How does Indyx encourage app users to be aware of the environment?
a. by breaking a cycle of fast fashion
b. by making users shop smarter
c. by creating outfits using clothes you already have
3. M&S gives consumers outfit ideas after they have…
a. completed a quiz.
b. downloaded an app.
c. described their current wardrobe.
4. In this article, Michelle Barrett encourages consumers to avoid AI fashion apps.
a. True
b. False
c. Not given
5. What does ‘it’ refer to in the following sentence? It’s simply creating statistically-plausible looks for you.
a. a shop
b. an app
c. AI
三、用下列单词完成对本文的总结。
There are many fashion apps out there, powered by AI, which are able to generate clothing ideas for you. In order to reduce _______, Indyx is an app which analyses what you already have in your _______ to create new _______. Some retailers are also embracing the technology, recommending clothes based on your _______ and the styles you like. But some are sceptical and say that AI doesn’t understand you or your looks, despite acting as a _______.
body shape
wardrobe
personal stylist
consumer
personalise
fast fashion
outfits
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词汇表
artificial intelligence 人工智能
virtual wardrobe 虚拟衣橱
user 用户
elevate 提升，提高
one-stop 一站式的
environmentally conscious 有环保意识的
closet 衣橱
fast fashion 快时尚，价格低、不耐用的时尚产品
outfit 全套服装
consumer 消费者
body shape 体型
style 风格
personalise 使…个性化
sceptic 持怀疑态度的人
personal stylist 私人造型师
statistically plausible 从数据上讲貌似可行的
algorithm 算法
predetermined 预先定义的
答案
一、根据文章内容选择正确的段落。
Paragraph 4. However, there are sceptics within the fashion industry.
二、根据文章内容选出正确的选项。
1. c. Not given. Indyx is anapp for reducing fast fashion, but it doesn’t say if it is the ‘most popular’.
2. c. Indyx encourages you to be environmentally conscious by combining the clothes you already have in your closet, which could means breaking a cycle of fast fashion, helping you to shop smarter.
3. a. Clothing retailer Marks and Spencer started using AI in 2024 to give advice to shoppers on outfit choices based on answers they give in an online quiz.
4. b. False. She warns that consumers must remember that AI doesn’t really understand your needs or looks, but she doesn’t encourage avoiding the apps.
5. c. The pronoun ‘it’ refers back to the sentence ‘She warns that consumers must remember that AI doesn’t really understand your needs or looks’.
三、用下列单词完成对本文的总结。
There are many fashion apps out there, powered by AI, and able to generate clothing ideas for you. In order to reduce fast fashion, Indyx is an app which analyses what you already have in your wardrobe to create new outfits. Some retailers are also embracing the technology, recommending clothes based on your body shape and the styles you like. But some are sceptical and say that AI doesn’t understand you or your looks, despite acting as a personal stylist.