30 pointsby absqueued8 hours ago9 comments
  • demibabs8 hours ago
    Damn, they got tokenized.
  • peatmoss4 hours ago
    It reminds me of an old issue of The Onion. https://theonion.com/black-guy-photoshopped-in-1819565862/ Extra funny for me because they photoshopped the backdrop which I immediately recognized as the University of Montana where I was a student at the time.
  • resoluteteeth6 hours ago
    I think modifying the woman on the left to make her look thinner is probably worse than replacing the person on the right with an imaginary ai generated person
    • gfrecvhan hour ago
      Totally. That poor girl will start a diet when she sees this article.
  • AnodicElegy7 hours ago
    '“It is Silicon Valley. I’m not as surprised given the culture of Stanford revolves heavily around AI usage,” he said of the face swap, noting that his professors also regularly use Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot.'

    That's depressing. Why would a professor be using an AI chatbot regularly in class? What kind of example are they setting for their students?

    • wildzzz3 hours ago
      My wife is in a master's program. The professors are using AI to write their assignments, plenty of em dashes present.
    • snypher5 hours ago
      Are they using it in class, or just generally IRL?
  • gfrecvhan hour ago
    Because real diversity comes from people who look different!
  • ChrisArchitect5 hours ago
    Related:

    Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801330

  • hermannj3145 hours ago
    I would be interested in the broader objective. Was the goal to misrepresent the student population?

    Photographers have always had discretion and can present their portfolio as if it were a random sample of an event even if it was actually curated to appeal to a statistical goal. This has been how colleges have lied for years about their demographics.

    • gfrecvhan hour ago
      > Was the goal to misrepresent the student population?

      The goal was money. In our society we have made mainstream the idea that a certain mixture of people is better than others, so naturally some institutions try to appear that they have the right mixture to attract more clients err students.

  • footy6 hours ago
    this is bizarre
  • hungryhobbit8 hours ago
    The good news is, America, we've progressed!

    There was a time where no American university would want to showcase minority female students (or even allow females!) ... and now we have minor departments at major colleges cheating to make it look like they have such students. That truly is progress ...

    ... but c'mon Stanford, you don't demonstrate progress by lying with AI. You demonstrate it by actually having a diverse student body.

    • rayiner7 hours ago
      It's not progress. It's just flipping the discrimination in the other direction. Progress would be not noticing who needs more or less sunscreen in a photo.
    • irkekrkrkt7 hours ago
      progress is not caring about skin color or what is between legs not obsession over that.
      • ndjdjdndnfn5 hours ago
        E pluribus anus

        Greendale human beings ftw!

    • brewcejener7 hours ago
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