Stanford University Uses AI to Replace White Male With Black Student, Beautifies Asian Peer
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1417762/stanford-university-uses-ai-to-replace-white-male-with-black-student-beautifies-asian-pe
Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises recently used AI to change the races of the students it included in its advertisements. AI was also used to noticeably slim down and alter students’ faces.
On his journey to campus, Stanford student Billy Ramirez ’27 was sent an image he recalled a Stanford photographer taking. Upon closer examination, he noticed that he had been removed from the photo and replaced by a AI-generated black woman.
Source: The Stanford Review.
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This makes them look more racist
Ah sweet digital blackface.
If someone decided to yassify me before adding my picture somewhere, I think I would take 1d10 of emotional damage.
Kind of reminds me of how my old uni would have photographers running around campus at the start of the semester each year looking for minorities to photograph, but this is so, so much worse.
“Marketing colleagues, our job is to pretend our student body is diverse and appealing to the male gaze.”
We need more diversity, also the diversity we have.. make them non ugly
Can you imagine anyone attending our school if we aren't uniformly beautiful? What other value could be more meaningful to project?
I agree in general to say Fuck AI for most of it, but in this case AI is irrelevant, it's just Fuck this school, they would have done the same with Photoshop
...Star Ginger...
This looks like it came straight from a South Park episode.
Absolutely unnecessary.
The college I went to, I interned and was tasked to shoot photos. They told me to look for blacks straight up.
Universities have been doing this for decades. https://www.npr.org/2013/12/29/257765543/a-campus-more-colorful-than-reality-beware-that-college-brochure
wasn't good then, is certainly shitty now. especially ai... barf
Absolutely unhinged
Oops