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.

An Asian MIT student was shocked when an AI tool turned her white for a professional headshot.
Rona Wang said she had been put off using AI-image tools because they didn't create usable results.
A recent study found that some AI image generators had issues with gender and racial bias.

An MIT graduate was caught by surprise when she prompted an artificial intelligence image generator to create a professional headshot for her LinkedIn profile, and it instead changed her race.

Rona Wang — a 24-year-old Asian American student who studied math and computer science, is completing a graduate program at MIT in the fall, and whose identity was verified by Insider — had been experimenting with the AI-image creator Playground AI. The Boston Globe was the first to report on the news.

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