The Onion already covered this 26 years ago: https://theonion.com/black-guy-photoshopped-in-1819565862/
The oracle foretold*
i was like no way the onion talked about photoshop 26 years ago! 2000 was 26 years ago… shit
Hi I’m 26
“Stanford student Billy Ramirez, a member of the class of 2027, told the publication that he remembered posing for the original photo, only to discover that he had been replaced by an AI-generated Black woman."
It is worth remembering that AI replaces the ENTIRE image, even if you ask it to change only one thing. That’s why every single person in the image looks different.
The Asian girl and the white dude both got mildly more attractive. But Billy got that glow up!
If that is in fact how the system in question works. There are systems which allow you to edit regions, like Affinity
We know that’s how the system works by the fact that every single person in the image looks different.
We know how THIS system works - but Affinity is just one example of how you can modify an area with AI, not just the whole image.
Are you asserting how every piece of software works, based on a single image example? Because that’s wildly incorrect.
We aren’t talking about other systems. Don’t move the goalposts.
You werent talking about any specific system at all until that user mentioned Affinity. I think you’re moving the goal posts here as youre now trying to frame the discussion as if you were talking about some other yet unnamed system the whole time when your original comment mentioned nothing of the sort.
If that is in fact how the system in question works.
We know that’s how the system works by the fact…
We know how THIS system works - but…
They cast doubt, I point out proof, they deflect to other systems they might be right about. Sounds like they moved the goalposts to me. I don’t need to know which system it is to know it does what we can see it do.
As a neutral observer, you clearly and unambiguously moved the goalpost.
As someone else pointed out, there are systems where you can isolate and replace only a portion of the image while leaving the rest unchanged, but you’re correct in this case, as you point out in your last sentence.
This sort of system takes the input image which it blurs and adds noise, and then regenerates from that rather than an initial pure-noise seed. You can mask or add more noise to the areas that you want and more dramatic change. Whole image-to-image diffusion; mostly uses the same mechanisms as a regular text-to-image diffusion.
They merged the two white guys…
Added a black woman…
And took like 20lbs off the Asian woman. Its shitty, but I don’t understand why it’s news outside of Stanford.
Reminds me of something Dean Pelton would do tho.
Maybe Pierce would’ve done it for marketing class and said something misogynistic about making the Asian woman thinner
Of course there are no consequences imposed by Stanford upon Stanford for its inappropriate behavior. If a student lied like Stanford did here there would be consequences.
The second most obvious thing is that they made the ones allowed to stay in the photo more attractive.
I’d be a little weirded out if I see a more attractive version of me (but not really me)in a photo.
I’m sure right-wing publications will be having a field day with this.
No: AI Acceptable: Photoshop Great: GIMP/Krita
Somebody hasn’t used photoshop in a while.
I think photoshop is like a weedeater. I photoshop things in Krita and GIMP, but I’d never GIMP or Krita things in Photoshop. I think that’s illegal in a couple states…
Really going to trigger the “replacement theory” morons.
I like how the AI also changed his shirt and removed the guy’s headphones
The specter of unaddressed racism has emerged from it’s burrow, saw this vaguely well meaning body shaming tokenism and predicated at least two more years of explicitly and eager racist fascism.
This probably well intending, but outlandishly naive, racist, virtue signaling shit places every non-straight white male in danger. No one asked for this ridiculous fake representation, but it will be sharpened into the dagger that kills us.
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