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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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[–] 20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Some people (especially in business) seem to think that adding AI to a workflow will make obviously bad ideas somehow magically work. Dispelling that notion is why articles like this are important.

(Actually, I suspect they know they’re still bad ideas, but delegating the decisions to an AI lets the humans involved avoid personal blame.)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    It's a massive issue that many people (especially in business) have this "the AI has spoken"-bias.

    Similar to how they implement whatever the consultant says, no matter if it actually makes sense, they just blindly follow what the AI says .

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Businesses will continue to use bandages rather than fix their root issue. This will always be the case.

    I work in factory automation and almost every camera/vision system we've installed has been a bandage of some sort because they think it will magically fix their production issues.

    We've had a sales rep ask if our cameras use AI, too. 😵‍💫

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