2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
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AI Photo Filter Lightens Skin, Changes Eye Color in Student's 'Professional' Image
An AI application modified an MIT student's photo to appear 'professional' by lightening her skin and changing her eye color to blue, highlighting the racial bias in the training data of the program.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2023-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
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
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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