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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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[–] EatMyDick 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Asian MIT grad who knows exactly what she is doing, pretends to be shocked after intentionally triggering industry known bias that are already acknowledged and being worked on"

This is just a student manufacturing controversy ensuring she has a great talking piece at her interviews.

[–] fubbernuckin 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While it's definitely a predictable outcome, it's really not fair to assume that's what her motive were.

[–] EatMyDick 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm sure this is the first time this MIT computer science grad had noooooo idea what she was doing.