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Buzzfeed use AI to produce Barbies from every country. The results turned out to reap protests because they were considered inappropriate. One such example is Barbie Sudan who was dressed in a gun, though that was corrected in the end.
“Can you believe the Midjourney section of Buzzfeed originally gave Barbie South Sudan guns?😱,” wrote localnotail.
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The Buzzfeed article ‘What AI Thinks Barbie Would Look Like Around the World’ published on July 6 has now been removed due to attacks on social media. However, screenshots of the article have already been milling about.
In addition, controversy also came because Barbie in a number of Asian countries such as Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand has blonde hair. In fact, dark hair is the hair most associated with Asian people.
“Really (Barbie from) East Asia is just a white girl with a yellow face,” wrote one Twitter user.
“They turned Thai Barbie into Russian,” said another.
Apart from hair color, what is at issue next is the use of inappropriate accessories or clothing. An example is the head covering, worn by men in Kuwait, showing up in the AI results for Barbie Kuwait.
AI images have drawn protests several times because they produce images that are deemed inappropriate. AI results are sometimes felt to be biased which actually reflects the data taken to train the machine, which comes from the public and various information on the internet. Thus launch Next Shark.
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2023-07-28 01:52:34
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