Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises used generative AI to alter student images in its advertisements, changing the race and gender of a student and slimming the faces of others. Billy Ramirez ’27 discovered his photo had been replaced by an AI-generated black woman, and the adjacent students appeared visibly thinner. The incident prompted Ramirez to express that the changes erased his identity and highlighted Stanford’s use of AI for representation.