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MIT student asks AI to turn pic into professional headshot. It made her white w/ blue eyes
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:23 am
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:23 am
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.
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An MIT graduate was caught by surprise when she prompted an AI image generator to create a professional headshot for her LinkedIn profile, and it instead changed her race.
24-year-old Rona Wang – an Asian American student who studied math and computer science, is completing a graduate program at MIT in the fall, and whose identity was verified by Insider – had been experimenting with online AI image creator, Playground AI. The Boston Globe was the first to report on the news.
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Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:24 am to saint tiger225
2, 1
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Wang
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:25 am to boddagetta
Dat Rona Wang ooooowwwweeee 
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:26 am to saint tiger225
Mighty White of Ya there AI
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:28 am to saint tiger225
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A recent study showed that some AI image generators have issues with gender and racial bias.
Computers are racist now. That wasn't on my 2023 bingo card.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:29 am to saint tiger225
2,1 for sure
sounds like something you end up after catching the rona virus.
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Rona Wang
sounds like something you end up after catching the rona virus.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:29 am to saint tiger225
Are we assuming AI knows all about what human races look like and that they have to remain the same?
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:32 am to chryso
like how AI messed her hair a bit to look like she just finished satisfying the boss.
This post was edited on 8/1/23 at 8:33 am
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:32 am to saint tiger225
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:34 am to saint tiger225
from the mouth of wang, AI is wacist!
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:40 am to saint tiger225
Why the frick is this news?
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:41 am to saint tiger225
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she uploaded into the image generator with the prompt: "Give the girl from the original photo a professional linkedin profile photo."
I hate that I'm such a skeptic nowadays that I have a hard time believing that's the exact prompt she typed in.
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She added that "racial bias is a recurring issue in AI tools," and the results have put her off them. "I haven't gotten any usable results from AI photo generators or editors yet, so I'll have to go without a new LinkedIn profile photo for now!"
Wang told The Globe that she was worried about the consequences in a more serious situation like if a company used AI to select the most "professional" candidate for the job and it picked white-looking people.
"I definitely think it's a problem," Wang said. "I hope people who are making software are aware of these biases and thinking about ways to mitigate them."
Like its crazy that this occurrence happened to someone who clearly already had existing feelings of racial biases in AI.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:43 am to saint tiger225
She went from Rona Wang to Donna Chang…
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:44 am to saint tiger225
I did this this too and it made me black. I guess that's not national newsworthy though.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:44 am to Bluefin
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so I'll have to go without a new LinkedIn profile photo for now
Because she can't just upload an unmodified photo of herself?
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:44 am to VADawg
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Computers are racist now. That wasn't on my 2023 bingo card.
Maybe they’re anti-Semitic.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:44 am to Bluefin
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I hate that I'm such a skeptic nowadays that I have a hard time believing that's the exact prompt she typed in.
If this is true, it could be replicated...right?
Which tool did she use and what was her EXACT prompt?
I think you're 100% right, obviously.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:48 am to saint tiger225
She’ll never admit it but you know she was like “I’m freakin hot”! Then remembered she had to snap back into woke mode for PC reasons.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:51 am to saint tiger225
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An MIT graduate was caught by surprise when she created an AI image generator to create a professional headshot for her LinkedIn profile, and it changed her race, exactly like she programmed it to do for clout.
FIFY
Posted on 8/1/23 at 8:54 am to saint tiger225
Now ask AI to turn her pic into a mugshot.
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