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Race Matters While messing with an artificial intelligence image generator, an Asian-American MIT grad found that the bot's way of professionalizing her headshot was to make her white. In an interview with Insider, 24-year-old Rona Wang said she was using the Playground AI image creator when she decided to input a selfie to make it seem […]
What she asked for: Rona Wang, 24, has been experimenting with AI portrait generators. In a recent attempt, she purportedly used a program called Playground AI to turn an image of her in an MIT sweatshirt into “a professional LinkedIn profile photo.” What she got: The program, to Wang’s surprise, returned an image that gave her a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes.
The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request
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