Stanford University said the use of artificial intelligence to alter the race and appearance of students in a promotional photo violated its policy and was “a serious error in judgment.”
\n\nThe controversy centers on an image taken of three students posing in front of Star Ginger in the university’s dining hall, according to The Stanford Review, the student-run newspaper that first reported the story.
\n\nThe original photo shows one female student and two male students holding their plates as they pose for the camera. The altered image shows one of the male students replaced with an AI-generated Black female student. The other two people in the altered image were made to look noticeably slimmer.
\n\nThe Stanford Review reported that the altered image was used by Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises in its advertisements. Its editor-in-chief Garret Molloy, said the altered photos were placed on welcome banners around campus.
\n\nBilly Ramirez, who is Hispanic, was the student who was removed from the image, according to The New York Times.
\n\n“To see me erased like that so easily was kind of very upsetting,” he told the outlet.
\n\nRamirez told The Stanford Review that he initially “found it hilarious” that the school had…
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