Stanford violated AI policy after race-swapping students in ad
A photo of three students in a Stanford dining hall was changed by the university using AI to swap people and alter appearances.Photos courtesy of Billy RamirezStanford University created one of the world’s first artificial intelligence labs in 1965. Stanford’s AI policy is clear: The use of AI in producing or altering images of Stanford people, events, research, facilities or achievements is strictly prohibited. Both the alteration and lack of disclosure in this case violate that policy.
- ▪A photo of three students in a Stanford dining hall was changed by the university using AI to swap people and alter appearances.Photos courtesy of Billy RamirezStanford University created one of the world’s first artificial intelligence lab
- ▪Stanford’s AI policy is clear: The use of AI in producing or altering images of Stanford people, events, research, facilities or achievements is strictly prohibited.
- ▪Both the alteration and lack of disclosure in this case violate that policy.
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A photo of three students in a Stanford dining hall was changed by the university using AI to swap people and alter appearances.Photos courtesy of Billy RamirezStanford University created one of the world’s first artificial intelligence labs in 1965. Six decades later, the school is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a nonexistent Black woman for a campus banner.The student, Billy Ramirez, said he was “baffled” by the change and later “felt silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me” in an interview with the Stanford Review, a student newspaper, which first reported the AI change.Two classmates, an Asian woman and white man, remained in the new photo, which was displayed on a campus banner, but their…
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