@meredithw

It means she now looks closer to what the "average" professional photo looks like.

@Wolven

@freemo @meredithw @Wolven and when HR asks for resumes of qualified professional applicants you think the same thing won’t happen? At best, you’ll get people whose resumes superficially look just like those of current employees, most likely it will reject every non-Anglo-Saxon name.

@theothersimo

Huh? What do you mean by "same thing might happen"... how would HR turn a persons picture into a new picture? I think your talking about racial discrimination, sure, and there is plenty of that, but how is that the same as what the AI did?

@meredithw @Wolven

@freemo @theothersimo @meredithw @Wolven The will ask the AI if the person looks professional, and it will only say yes to white people.

@katrinatransfem

Well few things.

There is a big difference between asking if someone is within the range of professionalism vs asking to make an image more professional. When asking to make an image more professional it will naturally make the image as close to the "average" image as possible, this means making it white.

This isnt the same as the AI thinking white is a requirement for professionalism, as there may very well be outliers that are non-white and still considered professional.

What it boils down to is when changing the image it had no idea that clothing and hairstyles (things we can change) should be prefered over eye color or skin color.. So it didnt bother to prioritize

That said if they were to create an AI specifically designed to check professionalism one would hope it would design in the proper considerations that realize these aspects, it wouldnt be hard to do.

@theothersimo @meredithw @Wolven

@freemo @theothersimo @meredithw @Wolven
You might hope that, but there are already AIs that assess for professionalism, and they don't design in these proper considerations.

@katrinatransfem

Then that is quite concerning.. Can you point me to some links on AI specifically designed for detecting professionalism and any reference to how they dont account for this?

@theothersimo @meredithw @Wolven