Description: 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.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Playground AI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Rona Wang and Racial minorities who may have experienced the same result.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
593
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-07-21
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
boston.com · 2023
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Rona Wang is no stranger to using artificial intelligence.
A recent MIT graduate, Wang, 24, has been experimenting with the variety of new AI language and image tools that have emerged in the past few years, and is intrigued by the ways the…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
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