“We’re like, ‘Show us a picture of a senior leadership team from Chanel visiting Microsoft’—it is all men in suits,” she said.
“It was a 100% male team, not even in fashionable clothes,” she said. “Like, come on. This is what you’ve got to offer?”
An OpenAI spokesperson told Fortune bias continues to be a significant issue in artificial intelligence that the industry is addressing. “We are continuously iterating on our models to reduce bias and mitigate harmful outputs,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Fortune asked ChatGPT to generate an image with Nair’s same prompt, and it created an image of five women and three men, all appearing to be white. Chanel did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment. Microsoft declined comment.
“AI is everywhere, yes, and it’s going to be transformative in our world, so luxury has to engage with it. Chanel has to engage with it,” Nair said.
“It’s so important that we keep the ethics and integrity of what we’re doing,” she added. “I constantly talk to my friends in tech, all the CEOs, saying, ‘Come on, guys, you gotta make sure that you’re integrating a humanistic way of thinking in AI.’”
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