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Image Upscaling Algorithm PULSE Allegedly Produced Facial Images with Caucasian Features More Often
- Occurred
- Jun 20, 2020
- Published
- Jun 24, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Image upscaling tool PULSE powered by NVIDIA's StyleGAN reportedly generated faces with Caucasian features more often, although AI academics, engineers, and researchers were not in agreement about where the source of bias was.
Developers
- Duke researchers
Deployers
- Duke researchers
Harmed parties
- people having non-Caucasian facial features
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Incident involves algorithmic bias in facial image generation with disputed source attribution.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8