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.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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.