BiasMedium
AI Photo Filter Lightens Skin, Changes Eye Color in Student's 'Professional' Image
- Occurred
- Jul 21, 2023
- Published
- Jul 21, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Playground AI
Deployers
- Playground AI
Harmed parties
- Rona Wang
- Minority groups
Tags
- AI bias
- generative AI
- AI image alteration
- AI facial feature modification
- AI racial representation
- AI misinterpretation of professionalism
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI photo filter exhibited racial bias by altering skin tone and eye color, causing controversy over discriminatory training data.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8