Incident 165: Image Upscaling Algorithm PULSE Allegedly Produced Facial Images with Caucasian Features More Often
Description: 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.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Duke researchers developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed people having non-Caucasian facial features.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
165
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2020-06-20
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
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It’s a startling image that illustrates the deep-rooted biases of AI research. Input a low-resolution picture of Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, into an algorithm designed to generate depixelated faces, and the…
A new computer vision technique that helps convert blurry photos of people into fake, realistic images has come under fire for being racially biased towards white people.
The tool known as PULSE was introduced by a group of researchers from…
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