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Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’ gets turned into white woman (nextshark.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Machine learning is biased towards its training data. If the image generation algorithm (notice I'm not saying AI) is trained on photos of "" professionals " being of a certain demographic that's what it will prefer when it's generating an image.

So these shocking exposés should simply be this image generator was trained with biased data. But the human condition is building biases. So we're never really going to get away from that.