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.

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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.
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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.::Rona Wang, a 24-year-old MIT student, was experimenting with the AI image creator Playground AI to create a professional LinkedIn photo.

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AI learns what is in the data.

The AI we have isn't "learning". They are pre-trained.

The “pre-training” is learning, they are often then fine-tuned with additional training (that’s the training that isn’t the ‘pre-training’), i.e. more learning, to achieve specific results.