Why do they think the photo was edited by AI as opposed to being edited by an ordinary human?
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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Yeah, it's shitty this happened, but I'm already noticing a lot of people are just incorrectly calling anything to do with a computer "AI"
I’ll take “boomer things” for 300, alex.
Because they needed some buzzwords in the title
Of course it was “fan art”. It’s the same shit “fans” have been doing to minority characters in films and video games since forever.
That is some whitewashing of culture bullshit right there. She is absolutely stunning.
Whitewashing of culture is absorbing another culture by renaming shit, such as wanting local dishes but refusing to learn the language so all the food becomes a generalized term, like curry.
What the "fan" did was absolutely pure racism; to remove Asian people and replace them with white.
She's a piece of meat in a self serving industry.
Nothing new here: Corporations have been doing this shit for decades. Dehumanizing is the name of the game if they think it'll make them more money.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a TikTok about the incident that has been viewed 1.8m times in the last week, Shereen Wu says Michael Costello, a designer who has worked with Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, and Celine Dion, posted a photo to his Instagram from a recent Los Angeles fashion show.
In a statement posted to Instagram on Thursday and deleted less than 24 hours later, Costello denied altering the photo and said the image was “fan art” sent to him by an unspecified source, but he “took responsibility” for sharing it.
While the origin of the altered runway photo is unknown, Wu believes someone – she doesn’t know who – used AI to create the white face that covered hers, a theory Costello echoed in his Instagram post.
“The modified image of Shereen spotlights the possibility that an AI program that has absorbed mainstream beauty preferences may erase the race of a model altogether, turning back the clock on the fashion industry’s progress toward diversity on the runway,” Scafidi said.
As the Cut reported, Costello added to the pile-on, sharing screenshots via Instagram of a supposed DM conversation with Teigen that left him “traumatized, depressed” with “thoughts of suicide”.
After Costello’s threat of legal action over her viral Tiktok, Wu contacted the Model Alliance, an advocacy group for fashion workers, which referred her to a lawyer.
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Costello sounds like a whiny bitch.