An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white, with lighter skin and blue eyes.
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Rona Wang, a 24-year-old MIT student, was experimenting with the AI image creator Playground AI to create a professional LinkedIn photo.

An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white with lighter skin and blue eyes.::Rona Wang, a 24-year-old MIT student, was experimenting with the AI image creator Playground AI to create a professional LinkedIn photo.

    • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      234·
      1 year ago

      AI is merely reflecting that, as it was designed to do.

      Yes. And everybody knows that. Your comment doesn’t really add anything.

      The point is that biased datasets are a problem that should be fixed - AI models need to comprehend human diversity, and the limitations from the biased datasets we do have need to be properly communicated to users.

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      The majority of images it had access to were white faces because that’s what was available to scrape.

      It doesn’t just create an average of all the faces tagged as “professional”—it identifies features that distinguish faces tagged as “professional” from ones that aren’t. If the same proportion of ethnicities were in both data sets (i.e., if they were both all white, or all Asian, or 50/50), it wouldn’t see a correlation, and it wouldn’t change the subject’s existing ethnicity.