This makes them look more racist

Ah sweet digital blackface.

If someone decided to yassify me before adding my picture somewhere, I think I would take 1d10 of emotional damage.

Kind of reminds me of how my old uni would have photographers running around campus at the start of the semester each year looking for minorities to photograph, but this is so, so much worse.

“Marketing colleagues, our job is to pretend our student body is diverse and appealing to the male gaze.”

I agree in general to say Fuck AI for most of it, but in this case AI is irrelevant, it's just Fuck this school, they would have done the same with Photoshop

We need more diversity, also the diversity we have.. make them non ugly

...Star Ginger...

This looks like it came straight from a South Park episode.

Absolutely unnecessary.

The college I went to, I interned and was tasked to shoot photos. They told me to look for blacks straight up.

Universities have been doing this for decades. https://www.npr.org/2013/12/29/257765543/a-campus-more-colorful-than-reality-beware-that-college-brochure

Oops

Absolutely unhinged

White guy got "Chad'd" too. What an awful ad.

I feel like what they did to the person on the left is just as bad, she got replaced, but by another Asian woman, with "better features" or whatever the prompt said to do

What I really don't get in particular, is that if you wanted to sell me on studying at Stanford, the original picture would be so much better. That looks like a friend group I'd like to hang out with.

Whereas the AI-generated picture just looks dead-eyed, like some models you hired to smile into the camera and then never talk to each other again. Honestly, it does not even register as people to me and not just because they literally do not exist.

I think colleges should be required to state when images are altered or do not represent actual students or locations. They should proudly show real goddamn people and places!

Least problematic but most perplexing: they took away the middle guy’s headphones. WTF is wrong with headphones?

What could be more important than cheating and misleading to achieve diversity? They do good work for tech companies too, "we totally have a 50/50 male/female ratio, just look at our company picnic!"