AI-powered tool transforming pixelated images has 'racial bias'

An artificial intelligence-powered tool that transforms pixelated images into clear photos has been accused of racial bias. Called Face Depixelizer, the tool was released on Twitter for users to test, who found the technology is unable to process Black faces properly. The tool transformed a pixelated image of Barack Obama into a a white man and other examples included Representative Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and actress Lucy Liu - all of which were reconstructed to look white. The Face Depixelizer is based on an AI tool developed by a team at Duke University, which uses a method called PULSE that searches through AI-generated images of high-resolution faces to match ones that look similar to the input image when compressed to the same size. An artificial intelligence-powered tool that transforms pixelated images into clear photos has been accused of racial bias.