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Posted by absqueued 1 day ago

Stanford violated AI policy after race-swapping students in ad(www.sfchronicle.com)
33 points | 19 comments
demibabs 1 day ago|
Damn, they got tokenized.
peatmoss 20 hours ago||
It reminds me of an old issue of The Onion. https://theonion.com/black-guy-photoshopped-in-1819565862/ Extra funny for me because they photoshopped the backdrop which I immediately recognized as the University of Montana where I was a student at the time.
resoluteteeth 22 hours ago||
I think modifying the woman on the left to make her look thinner is probably worse than replacing the person on the right with an imaginary ai generated person
gfrecvh 18 hours ago|
Totally. That poor girl will start a diet when she sees this article.
cindyllm 18 hours ago|||
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bsoqk 17 hours ago|||
What a tragedy.
AnodicElegy 23 hours ago||
'“It is Silicon Valley. I’m not as surprised given the culture of Stanford revolves heavily around AI usage,” he said of the face swap, noting that his professors also regularly use Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot.'

That's depressing. Why would a professor be using an AI chatbot regularly in class? What kind of example are they setting for their students?

wildzzz 19 hours ago||
My wife is in a master's program. The professors are using AI to write their assignments, plenty of em dashes present.
snypher 22 hours ago||
Are they using it in class, or just generally IRL?
gfrecvh 18 hours ago||
Because real diversity comes from people who look different!
ChrisArchitect 21 hours ago||
Related:

Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801330

hermannj314 22 hours ago||
I would be interested in the broader objective. Was the goal to misrepresent the student population?

Photographers have always had discretion and can present their portfolio as if it were a random sample of an event even if it was actually curated to appeal to a statistical goal. This has been how colleges have lied for years about their demographics.

gfrecvh 18 hours ago|
> Was the goal to misrepresent the student population?

The goal was money. In our society we have made mainstream the idea that a certain mixture of people is better than others, so naturally some institutions try to appear that they have the right mixture to attract more clients err students.

hungryhobbit 1 day ago||
The good news is, America, we've progressed!

There was a time where no American university would want to showcase minority female students (or even allow females!) ... and now we have minor departments at major colleges cheating to make it look like they have such students. That truly is progress ...

... but c'mon Stanford, you don't demonstrate progress by lying with AI. You demonstrate it by actually having a diverse student body.

rayiner 1 day ago||
It's not progress. It's just flipping the discrimination in the other direction. Progress would be not noticing who needs more or less sunscreen in a photo.
hungryhobbit 3 hours ago||
When there is a long line of ANY minority group in ANY society being discriminated against, and that group gets closer to equality, that IS progress.
rayiner 1 hour ago||
Equality would be if nobody thought to replace a hispanic guy with a black woman in an ad.
irkekrkrkt 1 day ago|||
progress is not caring about skin color or what is between legs not obsession over that.
ndjdjdndnfn 22 hours ago||
E pluribus anus

Greendale human beings ftw!

brewcejener 1 day ago||
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footy 23 hours ago|
this is bizarre