Stanford University has apologized for using AI to swap out a Hispanic male student for a black female in a promotional photo, calling the decision a “serious error in judgment.” The university didn’t stop at transforming a student’s race and gender to promote “diversity” — it also made both a white male student and an asian female student noticeably slimmer in the image.
\n\n“Not only the fact that the image was altered, but the ways in which it was altered, reflect a serious error in judgment,” a Stanford spokesperson told NBC News. “We have apologized to the students in the photo whose images were altered or erased.”
\n\n“Quite simply, this was wrong and should never have happened,” the university spokesperson added, before noting that the school has since launched an investigation so it can “put in place protocols to prevent it from happening again.”
\n\nGarret Molloy, editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review, which first reported on the incident, told NBC News that he believes the university was “trying to create this kind of artificial perception of diversity.”
\n\n“In the past, we did that with college photographers going around campus and trying to find a diverse friend group,” he said. “Those college…
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