Update 12/14/2022: A well known AI researcher and leftist Andrew Ng also featured this junk journalism in his latest The Batch newsletter.
MIT Technology Review published two articles this week from the same senior female reporter Melissa Heikkilä along these lines. Again an elite school (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) engaging openly in serious propaganda and demagoguery!
Google search did not find any biographical data on her other than some previous jobs.
In short, it appears that a woman with apparently an obsession and possibly other mental issues wrote these articles! As a minimum, she is a disciple of the skin color ideology and feminism!
It appears, the journalist failed to describe in her two articles how she prompted or elicited Lensa to generate the images of her. That is a serious omission!!!
"How it feels to be sexually objectified by an AI
You can read more of Melissa’s thoughts on Lensa’s avatars reflecting sexist and racist stereotypes in The Algorithm, her weekly AI newsletter. In it, she reflects on how it made her feel when the model returned more realistic portrayals of her when she told it she was male, and what the issues with Lensa tell us about AI more widely. ... " (Source)
In the words of the journalist:
"As an Asian woman [her first name is not Asian, her last name appears of Finnish origin], I thought I’d seen it all. I’ve felt icky after realizing a former date only dated Asian women. I’ve been in fights with men who think Asian women make great housewives. I’ve heard crude comments about my genitals. I’ve been mixed up with the other Asian person in the room."
"... I have Asian heritage [whatever that means], and that seems to be the only thing the AI model picked up on from my selfies. ...
My white female colleague got significantly fewer sexualized images ...
This leads to AI models that sexualize women regardless of whether they want to be depicted that way, ... especially women with identities that have been historically disadvantaged. ...
Lensa’s fetish for Asian women is so strong that I got female nudes and sexualized poses even when I directed the app to generate avatars of me as a male. ..."
My white female colleague got significantly fewer sexualized images ...
This leads to AI models that sexualize women regardless of whether they want to be depicted that way, ... especially women with identities that have been historically disadvantaged. ...
Lensa’s fetish for Asian women is so strong that I got female nudes and sexualized poses even when I directed the app to generate avatars of me as a male. ..."
This is her Twitter portrait
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