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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. (www.businessinsider.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (23 children)

These biases have always existed in the training data used for ML models (society and all that influencing the data we collect and the inherent biases that are latent within), but it’s definitely interesting that generative models now make these biases much much more visible (figuratively and literally with image models) to the lay person

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (22 children)

But they know the AI's have these biases, at least now, shouldn't they be able to code them out or lessen them? Or would that just create more problems?

Sorry, I'm no programer so I have no idea if thats even possible or not. Just sounds possible in my head.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you can code it, it isn't really AI.

AI is able to make the connections when given the data by itself. The problem is that the data required is usually enormous, so the quantity of data is more valued than the quality.

[–] Mininux 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can code it, it isn't really AI

thx I'm gonna use that sentence so much now, I'm so tired of hearing people calling themselves AI experts when they merely do regular programing, like yes your program is pretty cool, but no it's not AI.

"but... but it reacts to its environment, it's intelligent" NO BECAUSE THEN LITERALLY EVERYTHING WOULD BE "INTELLIGENT" and the word AI would be useless, as we have been doing that for decades with if/else

sory im angery

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No need to be to be sorry to me.

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