AI converts Asian-American student into Caucasian
Image generator Playground AI changed the face of Asian-American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student Rona Wang into a Caucasian, fueling accusations that the system is racist. Wang, 24, said she used text-to-image generator Playground AI to convert an image of her in an MIT sweatshirt into 'a professional LinkedIn profile photo.' The system returned an image of her with a a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair, and blue eyes. Wang told Boston.com , 'Wow, does this thing think I should become white to become more professional?’ Playground AI founder Suhail Doshi responded to incident by saying 'models aren’t instructable like that' and will pick 'any generic thing based on the prompt.' He later confessed to being 'quite displeased with this and hope to solve it.' System 🤖 Playground AI 🔗 Operator: Rona Wang ; Playground AI Develope r: Playground AI Country: USA Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts Purpose: Generate image Technology: Text-to-image; Generative adversarial network (GAN); Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning Issue: Bias/discrimination - race, ethnicity
- Date it happened
- 2023-07-01
- Organisation involved
- Rona Wang; Playground AI
- Product, system or model
- Playground AI
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