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

Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises used AI to alter student images in advertisements, changing races, genders, and physical appearances without consent. Student Billy Ramirez discovered he had been replaced by an AI-generated Black woman in a banner photo, leading him to feel "silenced and erased" from representation meant to include him. The incident raises concerns about Stanford's use of generative AI and ideological preferences in institutional messaging.