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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    1 year ago

    Disappointing but not surprising. The world is full of racial bias, and people don’t do a good job at all addressing this in their training data. If bias is what you’re showing the model, that’s exactly what it’ll learn, too.