The Onion already covered this 26 years ago: https://theonion.com/black-guy-photoshopped-in-1819565862/

“Stanford student Billy Ramirez, a member of the class of 2027, told the publication that he remembered posing for the original photo, only to discover that he had been replaced by an AI-generated Black woman."

What a time to be alive

Also why is no one talking about the fact that they made the young women skinnier. Young women already feel have unrealistic expectations without AI in the mix.

Of course there are no consequences imposed by Stanford upon Stanford for its inappropriate behavior. If a student lied like Stanford did here there would be consequences.

I'm sure right-wing publications will be having a field day with this.

The second most obvious thing is that they made the ones allowed to stay in the photo more attractive.

I'd be a little weirded out if I see a more attractive version of me (but not really me)in a photo.

Also gender swap

...why? What happened to copy-pasting random black people in with Photoshop like the good old days?

When I see conservative political or ideological ads with black people, I assume they're (desperate) actors, but AI works too.

I like how the AI also changed his shirt and removed the guy's headphones

Really going to trigger the "replacement theory" morons.

The specter of unaddressed racism has emerged from it's burrow, saw this vaguely well meaning body shaming tokenism and predicated at least two more years of explicitly and eager racist fascism.

This probably well intending, but outlandishly naive, racist, virtue signaling shit places every non-straight white male in danger. No one asked for this ridiculous fake representation, but it will be sharpened into the dagger that kills us.

None of the people in the "edited" picture are the same. Why even pretend to start with a real picture if you are going to replace everyone in it? Here's an even crazier idea, if you are so controlling over your marketing materials, hire people to model your sweaters and do a proper photo shoot in the cafeteria...

Why did they also crop above and below the middle guy's head?