Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’
Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’
Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
"I just want to do what I love so I must automatically tolerate the toxicity and abuse of the industry without complaining."
I see you're suggesting that she shouldn't be surprised that the fucked up culture in the fashion industry is fucked up since everyone knows it's fucked up. But what everyone else is trying to tell you is that we should still talk about how fucked up this is, because it's fucked up.
I think the point they’re trying to make is there are much worse things happening at a broader scale in the fashion industry than this one model being impacted by this event.
And we can also be angry about those. Not every news story has to be about the most important thing ever.
What did you want her to do, just not join the industry?
That just seems like systematic racism to me.
It's her fucking fault for getting into it in the first place.
This is textbook victim blaming. What isn't textbook is how mad you are about this. You are so mad about this, and it's unsettling.
I'm saying that maybe she shouldn't have gotten into the modelling industry with the expectation that she'd be treated like a human.
Yeah victim blaming. Those are the words society uses for what you're doing. In your defense of why it's not victim blaming you are continuing to do so.
But that's not the weird part because we all fuck up and need a reality check from time to time. I don't care about the story so much. It's an unfair situation and I'm glad she's getting credit for her work and calling out a bad player (I mean doing this shit for exposure instead of money should have been the first clue, but she's young and inexperienced and that's not her fault).
But you, my friend, are clearly upset about this beyond reason and it makes me worry for you. I wish you luck in whatever war is raging inside yourself.
Maybe she shouldn't be surprised, but if she doesn't call it out as BS that should stop who does?
Should actresses not be surprised when producers try to rape them since that's been happening since the beginnings of the film industry?
And why the fuck should she not be surprised? Removing blemishes is one thing. Changing their skin tone is quite another.
Oh, okay, maybe she should just shut up and take it then?
Nothing gets done if people don't talk about this stuff. The only power the masses have here is to turn this into a bad look for the companies involved.
Oh, I see, so because it isn't new, we should just give up, go home and just accept racism as the norm?
MLK would be so proud.
Rally behind a flag of exploited youths.
What exactly do you think we are doing?
Just don’t be surprised when the industry does this shit. It’s what they’ve always done.
You don't have to be surprised to find something worth talking about. We talk about unhinged politicians all the time, yet we've come to expect them. We talk about school shootings all the time, yet they are not a surprise any more.
So, when someone willingly joins them, and then complains about things being just as bad as everyone already knows, we can all look at them with pity, because they were too stupid to make the right choice earlier.
So your solution is for the victim here to simply leave the entire industry? Heh. Sure. Because that'll totally pan out alright.
How many industry swaps have you done in your lifetime, bud? Because with a new industry comes new skillsets and completely different training requirements, which often takes years to complete, not to mention requiring completely different ways of thinking.
“This wheat thresher destroyed my legs!” Says the person who jumped into the wheat thresher, while still inside the wheat thresher.
"This school shooter blew my legs off", says the foolhardy teen who had the audacity to become a student in the USA, then complain about school shooters.
This is how disconnected from reality you sound.
Because white girls are prettier. And she should know that.
Jesus you are disgusting.
If my baby cousin gets hit trying to cross a busy street where many deaths have already occurred, I will still cry, even if the collision was entirely predictable. He didn't deserve it. Knowing danger and accepting the risk does not mean you deserve the dire consequences when they occur.
WHY ARE YOU ASSESSING BLAME TO A BABY?
You have trouble reading, don't you?
This woman is culpable for all of the young girls going forward who join this industry and are subject to the same treatment.
Is that in the same way you are culpable for all the other knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who will follow in your steps?
Lmao
I consider this comment to be loud and boisterous, but completely tone deaf.
White supremacy is not the side you want to be on.
That superficial, artificial clique would be an entire industry as far as I can see you saying
That's not something that should be argued as "just a clique, why did you show up?". That'd be like saying the Activision/Blizzard scandal in the gaming industry was people who just should've accepted the shitty situation they were in. People should be able to say that an industry they want to be in is acting inappropriately.
And you still have no qualms about the industry treating white as the obviously superior modification they would make to her appearance.
You just defend that industry by calling HER the moron.
If you quack like a white supremacist, you are a white supremacists.
Happy you don't like being called what you are though.
Leaves room for you to correct that.
PS: by correct that, I mean having harsh words for the producers, not the beautiful young lady who the producers whitified.
Concern trolling, as are all accusations of "diluting a term" are. If girls at risk of being edited stayed out of the fashion industry - which was your advice - then the fashion industry would be left with only white women. But you knew that, didn't you?
You all think it will stop at white women. It won't. Next they'll photoshop hair color. Then eye color. Then cheek depth. Then whatever fucking else they can find.
Lmao, it's so fucking bizarre that you think you're the only one who realises this.
You all want to make it about race, but the problem is deeper.
Wow, galaxy brain, how did you figure this out before the rest of us? Yeah it's fundamentally fucked. But you're absolutely deluded if you think this incident had nothing to do with race.
