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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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[-] CharlestonChewbacca@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

That's not how it works. You don't just "program out the biases" you have to retain the model with more inclusive training data.

[-] sci@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

even then, it will always move towards the "average" of all combined training data, unless prompted otherwise.

[-] CharlestonChewbacca@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

No, that's not how it works either.

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