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Image Upscaling Algorithm PULSE Allegedly Produced Facial Images with Caucasian Features More Often

AI Incident Database · article · Jun 23, 2020 · UTC

Image upscaling tool PULSE powered by NVIDIA's StyleGAN reportedly generated faces with Caucasian features more often, although AI academics, engineers, and researchers were not in agreement about where the source of bias was.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2020-06-20T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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