Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
I hate how much the AI term gets thrown around. This just looks like regular Photoshop.
I agree. The article even says they don’t know how the picture was edited or who edited it. It may not have anything to do with AI at all.
While the origin of the altered runway photo is unknown, Wu believes someone – she doesn’t know who – used AI to create the white face that covered hers, a theory Costello echoed in his Instagram post.
Anything automated is AI today.
Regular photoshop has a bunch of AI tools as standard these days.
I was expecting something like what they did to Mindy Kaling where they lightened her skin (way too much) but they didn’t make her look white, they straight up replaced her head.
“Beauty” filters are basically just “White” filters for anyone who isn’t Caucasian.
Also much broader shoulders
I’d be pissed too. They didn’t just change her skin tone, they completely took her out of the photo. For models who are sometimes paid in exposure, this is like yanking that pay away from her. Whatever photoshop is done, she needs to at least look like it’s her for her to be able to get the benefits from doing the work.
But even models who are paid money, there should be laws against making them look like someone completely different, in terms of the brand that they work for.
And that designer is a pos for sharing that photo, even if a fan did send it to him as “fan art”. Beyond the face change being in bad taste, he’s a professional, so he should be promoting the actual model who walked for him.
From the title by itself, I was expecting a simple change to skin tone, which would have been bad enough. Reading the story and looking at the pic made me realize that things are much, much worse. What the FUCK.
The whole job is kinda dehumanising
Wow that is incredibly disrespectful.
I expected to be paid in exposure
Oh dear…
He also said he was receiving death threats and that the show was a tribute to his aunt, who recently passed away.
Was his aunt a racist and that’s why he made an Asian model white?
Read the article, it wasn’t the designer who made the change. Even the model said so
I read the article and that is not what she said:
While the origin of the altered runway photo is unknown, Wu believes someone – she doesn’t know who – used AI to create the white face that covered hers, a theory Costello echoed in his Instagram post.
If you think the designer had no input into the photos from their own show, either you’re nuts or they don’t care very much about their designs.
Costello denied altering the photo and said the image was “fan art” sent to him by an unspecified source, but he “took responsibility” for sharing it
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Take my word for it, folks! It wasn’t me, it was someone who wanted to show me love!
If you think that’s dehumanizing, imagine being born looking like that!
