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Adobe Patent Tackles Bias in Image AI Tools

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by The Daily Upside.

Adobe filed a patent application for “debiasing image to image translation models.” in an effort to balance output from generative image models to properly represent and produce images that contain “minority attributes.” 

“I think it’s a credit to their corporate culture that they’re really thinking about these things,” said Green.  

“It really reflects that this is a statistical system. It’s not a system that actually understands things, It just draws correlations,” said Green. “It highlights that AI really isn’t functioning in a way that some people might be thinking that it does.”

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by The Daily Upside.

 

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