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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. (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rage bait to push the ethics in AI narrative

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you not see an issue?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope… because I just tried it as a white male and got back a pure Asian man using the same prompts… and I’ll be damned if I’m not jealous/sad because the man it spit back out was way better looking than me…

[–] Kinglink 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I wish I could look half as cool as Simu Liu does. He's probably my standard of "handsome man" and I have learned that I'll never look like him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ugh… yes. I concur wholeheartedly…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which model did they use, and what was it specialized for? Was professional headshots what it was designed for? Those are the issues to be mad at. Not something as ambiguous as "AI".