Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising
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- Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises used AI to alter the race and appearance of students in advertisements.
- Billy Ramirez, a Stanford student, discovered his image was replaced with an AI-generated black woman, and his race and gender were changed.
- Ramirez expressed feeling 'silenced and erased' by the representation change, though he initially found it humorous.
- Other students in the photo had their faces slimmed and bodies altered with AI.
- The incident gained attention on Fizz and highlights ongoing ideological and racial preferences in Stanford's bureaucracy.
- The Stanford Review plans to monitor future R&DE advertising practices.