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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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[–] ExclamatoryProdundity@lemmy.world 198 points 1 year ago (34 children)

Look, I hate racism and inherent bias toward white people but this is just ignorance of the tech. Willfully or otherwise it’s still misleading clickbait. Upload a picture of an anonymous white chick and ask the same thing. It’s going go to make a similar image of another white chick. To get it to reliably recreate your facial features it needs to be trained on your face. It works for celebrities for this reason not a random “Asian MIT student” This kind of shit sets us back and makes us look reactionary.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 148 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

It’s less a reflection on the tech, and more a reflection on the culture that generated the content that trained the tech.

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.

This is a real potential issue, not just “clickbait”.

[–] drz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No company would use ML to classify who's the most professional looking candidate.

  1. Anyone with any ML experience at all knows how ridiculous this concept is. Who's going to go out there and create a dataset matching "proffesional looking scores" to headshots?
  2. The amount of bad press and ridicule this would attract isn't worth it to any company.
[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Companies already use resume scanners that have been found to bias against black sounding names. They’re designed to feedback loop successful candidates, and guess what shit the ML learned real quick?

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