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Google’s New AI Puts Breasts on Minors—And J. D. Vance (www.theatlantic.com)

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This week, at its annual software conference, Google released an AI tool called Try It On, which acts as a virtual dressing room: Upload images of yourself while shopping for clothes online, and Google will show you what you might look like in a selected garment. Curious to play around with the tool, we began uploading images of famous men—Vance, Sam Altman, Abraham Lincoln, Michelangelo’s David, Pope Leo XIV—and dressed them in linen shirts and three-piece suits. Some looked almost dapper. But when we tested a number of articles designed for women on these famous men, the tool quickly adapted: Whether it was a mesh shirt, a low-cut top, or even just a T-shirt, Google’s AI rapidly spun up images of the vice president, the CEO of OpenAI, and the vicar of Christ with breasts.

It’s not just men: When we uploaded images of women, the tool repeatedly enhanced their décolletage or added breasts that were not visible in the original images. In one example, we fed Google a photo of the now-retired German chancellor Angela Merkel in a red blazer and asked the bot to show us what she would look like in an almost transparent mesh top. It generated an image of Merkel wearing the sheer shirt over a black bra that revealed an AI-generated chest.

Sounds like this is going tits up.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Testing
If it doesn't know what a part of your body looks like, it shouldn't generate one. Especially because the training material of half naked women is 99% (super)models. So not realistic at all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So, you'd prefer that the system require you to upload nudes of yourself first?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd prefer a system that just says "Sorry, I don't have enough information to generate a realistic picture." etc.

[–] riskable 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But that's no fun at all!

Most people want a system that lets them dress politicians in lame, opposite-sex, revealing clothing. Why else would such a system exist? Nobody cares what they (themselves) would look like in such clothes!

I'm sure in the 2.0 version there will be a "chest" slider—due to popular demand!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I read and thought about it as a "virtual dressing room: Upload images of yourself while shopping for clothes online, and Google will show you what you might look like in a selected garment". I'd imagine people wanting to imagine Marx as a Pimp would just ask their favorite Chatbots to generate those.