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.

https://lemmy.world/post/2472279

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. - Lemmy.world

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.

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.
The point, which you’ve missed, is that AI is being trained on datasets that reinforced stereotypes, poisoning the models and reinforcing things that could become very problematic as AI gets used more without proper supervision.
Didn’t miss the point. It was trained on images of people. The majority of images it had access to were white faces because that’s what was available to scrape. Too many white people are represented in media. Isn’t that the underlying point? AI is merely reflecting that, as it was designed to do. That reflection is embarrassing. Like a toddler with a potty mouth. Not the kids fault.

AI is merely reflecting that, as it was designed to do.

Yes. And everybody knows that. Your comment doesn’t really add anything.

The point is that is a problem that should be fixed - AI models need more diverse datasets, and the limitations from the biased datasets we do have need to be properly communicated to users.

No we’re on the same page. But since you came off hostile from the start, I’m going to assume that’s the kind of interaction you’re looking for. Look elsewhere.
Yeah no… After calling a genuine concern “misleading clickbait” you don’t get to say I’m being hostile from the start and your comment is totally “in the same page”.
I’m allowed to do whatever I want and you’re allowed to be willfully obtuse. Doing great so far. Keep telling the world how it should work rather than try to understand it and offer solutions. It’s gonna work out for you I’m sure of it.