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.
Interestingly, many stable diffusion models are trained on pictures of Asian people and thus often generate people that look more or less Asian if there’s no specific input or tuning otherwise. It’s all in the training data and tuning.
See for example here for reference.
not just asian people, mostly just pictures of kpop/cpop supermodels (who often have had cosmetic surgery)
Yeah, but what if we want want the people wearing clothes in the final results. /s