Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
A photo of three students in a Stanford dining hall was changed by the university using AI to swap people and alter appearances.
TL;DR
- Stanford University used AI to alter a photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner.
- The university confirmed the AI alteration violated its policy, which prohibits altering images of people without disclosure.
- The affected student felt "baffled" and "silenced and erased" by the change.
- The AI-altered image was used on campus banners promoting the university's dining services.
- The banners are now being taken down, and the university is conducting additional staff training.
- This incident follows similar controversies at other universities involving the misuse of generative AI.