Dillon Chi

Dillon Chi

UX Researcher and AI Generalist

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Nvidia Inpainting Bias

An exploration into the world of design, AI, and development.

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Image Inpainting lets you edit images with a smart retouching brush. Use the power of NVIDIA GPUs and deep learning algorithms to replace any portion of the image.

NVIDIA Inpainting Playground

The Nvidia Inpainting deep learning is biased and hasn't been trained to recognize darker-skinned folx.

Original Images: Light-skin | Dark-skin

NVIDIA Inpainting Algorithm - Tested 8.15.21

For the algorithm to recognize a face, I had to crop the image and lighten the skin-color crudely in photoshop.

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