'Unbuttoned Blouse, Added Bra': Ex-Google, Facebook Employee Claims Photo Edited for AI Conference

A product designer, who worked for Google, YouTube and Facebook, has accused the organisers of an AI conference of editing her photo for a poster. The US-based techie alleged that not only the pockets of her shirt were removed, but her blouse was also unbuttoned, and a bra was added. The organisers have now taken down all the posters and apologised to her.

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Elizabeth Laraki is set to attend a conference on UX and AI later this year and the organisers put up an ad for the same. When she came across the ad featuring her photo, she was shocked as her photo “didn’t look right”.

“Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I’ve never noticed…? That’s weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put the two photos side by side and I’m like WTF,” Laraki wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter).

She further revealed, “Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath.”

Upon discovering the alterations, Laraki reached out to the conference host, whom she described as a “respectable guy with five kids at home”.

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Laraki said that he was apologetic regarding the edited picture and explained that the “woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website”. Laraki added, “She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.”

“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 concluded.

Take a look at the original and edited pictures below:

After going through the techie’s viral post, a woman expressed, “Insane. Also, it thinks women’s shirts shouldn’t have pockets.”

“It also hid your necklace for some reason,” another pointed out.

A third commented, “It also hid your necklace for some reason.”

“I could see this becoming a case study. Thanks for posting about it, and glad it wasn’t a person’s active choice,” wrote a fourth.

A fifth shared, “Something is off. As a Photoshop expert, I’d say they went ham with generative fill. Even the medallion on your necklace is gone along with the pockets on your shirt.”