The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request
To be fair, I used a Chinese AI picture generator app with my face and it made it more Asian looking. It’s obvious that each software has biases towards the people who made and trained it. It’s not good, but it’s expected and happening everywhere.
Ok, but she asked it to make her look professional and the only thing it changed was her race. Not the background, not her clothes. Last I checked, a university sweatshirt wasn’t exactly professional wear.
Machine learning is biased towards its training data. If the image generation algorithm (notice I’m not saying AI) is trained on photos of “” professionals " being of a certain demographic that’s what it will prefer when it’s generating an image.
So these shocking exposés should simply be this image generator was trained with biased data. But the human condition is building biases. So we’re never really going to get away from that.
Frankly I think we’re overlooking the silver lining. She got a picture that resembles her but couldn’t possibly be used to identify her in real life. That’s exactly what I’d want to use for an online profile.
Just, you know, as long as that profile isn’t for some site whose sole purpose is allowing others to identify you for your career.
@stopthatgirl7 She also ended up with slightly frizzy hair compared to her relatively straight hair.
All around messed up and creepy.
