AI Photo Filter Lightens Skin, Changes Eye Color in Student's 'Professional' Image
July 21, 2023
An AI application modified an MIT student's photo to appear 'professional' by lightening her skin and changing her eye color to blue, highlighting the racial bias in the training data of the program.
- Alleged deployer
- playground-ai
- Alleged developer
- playground-ai
- Alleged harmed parties
- rona-wang, racial-minorities-who-may-have-experienced-the-same-result
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/593
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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