Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
From the title by itself, I was expecting a simple change to skin tone, which would have been bad enough. Reading the story and looking at the pic made me realize that things are much, much worse. What the FUCK.
You know what is the worst thing about this for me.
According to his post, he did not produce the show and did not know that Wu was not compensated for her time until he saw her TikTok.
Not only did they cheat her out of being the model, and replacing her with a terrible AI photo. They also didnt pay her for doing the actual show, until this blew up and the designer saw the tiktok.
He also initially threatened legal action against her, for unclear reasons. Like, he’s shared some racist Photoshop, gets called out for it, and his first response is to… Threaten to sue the model who simply made public comments about it?
Guy is a real piece of shit. He can walk back on stuff all he wants, but the first thing he did speaks volumes about what kinda person he is.
To be fair, Wu also states in the article that she wasn’t expecting to be paid in anything but “exposure.” But that i think is what makes this particularly egregious - she wasn’t even getting paid in that fake currency for the naive. Although the article says that many of the models are under a similar arrangement for the fashion week this occurred during, so maybe exposure still counts for something in the fashion and modeling industries.
That altered pic definitely looks unnatural. Even by fashion model standards.
I hate how much the AI term gets thrown around. This just looks like regular Photoshop.
I agree. The article even says they don’t know how the picture was edited or who edited it. It may not have anything to do with AI at all.
While the origin of the altered runway photo is unknown, Wu believes someone – she doesn’t know who – used AI to create the white face that covered hers, a theory Costello echoed in his Instagram post.
Anything automated is AI today.
Regular photoshop has a bunch of AI tools as standard these days.
Wow that is incredibly disrespectful.
“I got into an industry that values appearance over literally everything, and I’m upset because they changed my appearance to meet their standards.” I pawned my small violin for diet pills a few weeks ago, but as soon as I get it back I’ll play her a song.
Edit: I guess I need to spell it out for you fucking mouth breathers. I’m not supporting the fashion industry. I’m not saying that they should do this. I fucking hate it. I also am not supporting this woman who is propping up an industry that would sooner tell someone to change their physical appearance before they adjust the measurements of the garment they are peddling on a stage for clout. This woman is culpable for all of the young girls going forward who join this industry and are subject to the same treatment. She’s the young black man who joined the police force hoping to change the institution from within. Sorry, it’s too late. Burn it down. Go to your local Louis Vuitton store and set fire to the displays. If you see someone with a Dolce & Gabbana bag walking down the street you should dump pig blood on them, not because it was made with animals, but because it was made by an industry that treats its people like cattle. Fuck them all.
“I just want to do what I love so I must automatically tolerate the toxicity and abuse of the industry without complaining.”
I consider this comment to be loud and boisterous, but completely tone deaf.
White supremacy is not the side you want to be on.
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
The whole job is kinda dehumanising
I was expecting something like what they did to Mindy Kaling where they lightened her skin (way too much) but they didn’t make her look white, they straight up replaced her head.
Also much broader shoulders
I’d be pissed too. They didn’t just change her skin tone, they completely took her out of the photo. For models who are sometimes paid in exposure, this is like yanking that pay away from her. Whatever photoshop is done, she needs to at least look like it’s her for her to be able to get the benefits from doing the work.
But even models who are paid money, there should be laws against making them look like someone completely different, in terms of the brand that they work for.
And that designer is a pos for sharing that photo, even if a fan did send it to him as “fan art”. Beyond the face change being in bad taste, he’s a professional, so he should be promoting the actual model who walked for him.
He also said he was receiving death threats and that the show was a tribute to his aunt, who recently passed away.
Was his aunt a racist and that’s why he made an Asian model white?
Read the article, it wasn’t the designer who made the change. Even the model said so
I read the article and that is not what she said:
While the origin of the altered runway photo is unknown, Wu believes someone – she doesn’t know who – used AI to create the white face that covered hers, a theory Costello echoed in his Instagram post.
If you think the designer had no input into the photos from their own show, either you’re nuts or they don’t care very much about their designs.
Costello denied altering the photo and said the image was “fan art” sent to him by an unspecified source, but he “took responsibility” for sharing it
More context
Take my word for it, folks! It wasn’t me, it was someone who wanted to show me love!
If you think that’s dehumanizing, imagine being born looking like that!
Explain.
I am hoping it’s sarcasm that mocks the people who are changing the faces for all the wrong reasons.
Imagine being born looking white. It happened to me once.
I still don’t get it.
Are you saying that it’s not dehumanizing for her image to be altered to look white because “being white” is better? Worse?
It’s facetious humor. If you think being turned into a white person sucks, imagine being born one.
Oh hehe. Understood now!
I expected to be paid in exposure
Oh dear…
If she thinks any white people look like that either she’s being racist.
