'AI Altered My Image': Ex-Google Designer Elizabeth Lazarki Shocked by Conference Photo Edit

Elizabeth Lazarki, a prominent UI/UX designer with experience at Google Maps, Facebook, and YouTube, recently expressed her shock after discovering that her conference poster photo had been altered to include a bra. Lazarki is set to attend a conference focused on UX and AI design later this year.

Upon seeing the promotional material, she was taken aback, stating, "I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird." After checking her original photo, she confirmed, "No bra showing." She further detailed her reaction: "I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF."

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Lazarki explained that the alteration was not a simple oversight. The conference host informed her that the person managing their social media used AI technology to elongate the photo, resulting in the unintended edit. "AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath)," she said.

The incident sparked a wave of reactions online, with her post garnering over 2 million views. Many users were astonished by AI's capacity to alter clothing in a woman's photo. One user remarked, “Fascinating story. I’ve fed Midjourney identical prompts only swapping out 'men' and 'women' and the results are always drastically different, sexualizing the images of women nearly always. Interesting mirror to our culture.”

Another user quipped, “The conference is about AI and UX? Bet you’ll have one heck of a talk with this firsthand experience with the ways AI can mess up.”

A third one said, “Interesting, I used Adobe AI to adjust logos and it decided a man who was a bit light skinned is supposed to be a woman and added all woman features. It wasn’t amusing at all.”