The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request

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    2 years ago

    “Asian MIT grad who knows exactly what she is doing, pretends to be shocked after intentionally triggering industry known bias that are already acknowledged and being worked on”

    This is just a student manufacturing controversy ensuring she has a great talking piece at her interviews.

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      While it’s definitely a predictable outcome, it’s really not fair to assume that’s what her motive were.

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        Yeah I’m sure this is the first time this MIT computer science grad had noooooo idea what she was doing.

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    You have to pick the model that fits you, and specify what you want. This is how ai works mathematically, it trends towards one image,

    Its like buying foundation randomly and being upset it doesn’t fit your skin tone perfectly.

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    I mean wouldn’t this just be due to like the sheer number of BS “female professional” stock photos used on the websites of call centers globally, that the AI ingested? Said “professional white person” photos being used especially in non-western websites in order to gain legitimacy in the west?

    Like given what little I know about how AI ingests and spits out data, it might be correlating the buzzword “professional”, and stock photos of white people that were ingested from Asian websites. It might be “wrong” but the AI doesn’t attempt to be “right” it’s just trying to give you what you expect based on the data it has.

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    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.

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      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.