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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)
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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] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed, there seems to be some confusion about the wording too. She wrote instructions, like she was instructing a state-of-the-art LLM, "please alter this photo to make it look professional", but the AI can't understand sentence structure or instructions, it just looks for labels that match pictures. So the AI sees "photo, professional" and it sees her starting photo, and it alters the starting photo to produce something that resembles "photo, professional". It doesn't know what those other words mean.