AI Photo Filter Lightens Skin, Changes Eye Color in Student's 'Professional' Image

July 21, 2023

An AI application, while attempting to create a 'professional' image for an MIT student, inadvertently showcased racial bias by lightening her skin tone and changing her eye color to blue. This incident underscores the importance of using trustworthy AI that adheres to Project Cerebellum's guidelines for safe and secure AI practices.

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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

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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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