Image Recognition
KEY HIGHLIGHTS Asian American MIT graduate, Rona Wang, morphed into a white woman by AI for a 'professional' LinkedIn photo. The incident reignites the debate on racial bias in AI, extending to 'whitewashing' in image generation and discrimination in facial recognition. Rona Wang, a 24-year-old Asian American graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, found herself at the center of a racial bias controversy surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Playground AI : A Makeover Gone WrongWang had been experimenting with AI portrait generators, using a program known as Playground AI. She expected to turn her casual image, clad in an MIT sweatshirt, into a professional snapshot fit for LinkedIn.