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.
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Rona Wang, a 24-year-old MIT student, was experimenting with the AI image creator Playground AI to create a professional LinkedIn photo.

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.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13214·
    2 years ago

    It’s less a reflection on the tech, and more a reflection on the culture that generated the content that trained the tech.

    Wang told The Globe that she was worried about the consequences in a more serious situation, like if a company used AI to select the most “professional” candidate for the job and it picked white-looking people.

    This is a real potential issue, not just “clickbait”.

    • HumbertTetere@feddit.deEnglish
      292·
      2 years ago

      If companies go pick the most professional applicant by their photo that is a reason for concern, but it has little to do with the image training data of AI.

    • drz@lemmy.caEnglish
      32·
      2 years ago

      No company would use ML to classify who’s the most professional looking candidate.

      1. Anyone with any ML experience at all knows how ridiculous this concept is. Who’s going to go out there and create a dataset matching “proffesional looking scores” to headshots?
      2. The amount of bad press and ridicule this would attract isn’t worth it to any company.
      • kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Companies already use resume scanners that have been found to bias against black sounding names. They’re designed to feedback loop successful candidates, and guess what shit the ML learned real quick?