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Image Upscaling Algorithm PULSE Allegedly Produced Facial Images with Caucasian Features More Often
Image upscaling tool PULSE powered by NVIDIA's StyleGAN reportedly generated faces with Caucasian features more often, although AI academics, engineers, and researchers were not in agreement about where the source of bias was.
- Date it happened
- 2020-06-20
- Organisation involved
- Duke researchers
- Product, system or model
- PULSE uses StyleGAN to "imagine" the high-res version of pixelated inputs. It does this by generating a completely new high-res face that, when pixelated, looks the same as the one inputted by the use
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