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.
Mereo @ Mereo @lemmy.ca Posts 19Comments 499Joined 2 yr. ago

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It reminds me of Google back in the day (probably early 2010s). If you searched for White Women, it returned professional and respectable images. But if you searched for Black Women, it returned explicit images.
Machine learning algorithms are like sponges and learn from existing social biases.