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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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[-] aggelalex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Garbage in, garbage out! This AI is woefully badly trained.

[-] funkajunk@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Sigh...

It's not racial bias, it works from a limited dataset and what it understands a "professional headshot" even is.

Seems like some ragebait to me.

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[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

10 Ways AI is RACIST! Click here to see more RACIST AIs DISRESPECTING RACE!!1!!1

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago

Who is AI?

[-] Squeezer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

How can bias amplification be controlled in these models? Surely it’s built in?

[-] fugepe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Awpresshawn and shit

[-] Fantomas@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

A.I. - Aryan Intelligence.

[-] Alwaysfallingupyup@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Or.. and Im just spit balling here. Dont ask it to do something you knew probably wouldnt give you something youre happy with and you wont be insulted..

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

I asked a taxi driver in Bollywood to take me to the home of someone famous. He took me to an Indian person's house. Does he think all famous people are Indian?

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