Even For AI, White Is Right: Photo enhancing bot turns Asian woman white when asked to beautify portrait
Even For AI, White Is Right: Photo enhancing bot turns Asian woman white when asked to beautify portrait
In a rather bizarre incident, a 24-year-old Asian-American MIT graduate, Rona Wang, discovered while using an AI image generator, that the bot’s idea of “professionalizing” her headshot was to alter her appearance to look white.
This meant removing her Mongoloid features such as the shape of her eyelids, the colour of her eyes, her skin tone, the shape and colour of her lips, the shape of her face and the colour of her hair–basically, it meant giving her a completely new and alien face.
was trying to get a linkedin profile photo with AI editing & this is what it gave me
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