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The Economic Times
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Stanford AI photo controversy: White male student replaced by Black woman in ad, ‘silenced and erased’

Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises has come under intense backlash for allegedly using AI to race- and gender-swap students. The students had been photographed for its advertisements and Stanford even allegedly altered their appearances by slimming down their faces, reports The New York Post.

The student newspaper The Stanford Review obtained photos from before and after the changes. The original photo showed students holding plates of food in the cafeteria. One student in the original photo said he was surprised to see that he had been replaced by a Black woman in the edited version.

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