Stanford Caught Using AI to Race-Swap Student | Victor Davis Hanson

Stanford Residential and Dining Enterprises recently used AI to change the races of students it included in its advertisement. AI was also used to notably slim down and alter students' faces. On his journey to campus, Stanford student Billy Ramirez, 27, was sent an image he recalled a Stanford photographer taking. Upon closer examination, he noticed that he had been removed from the photo and replaced by an AI-generated black woman. woman. The review told Ramirez that the review spoke to Ramirez, who stated, quote, I was driving to school from my hometown when my friend sent me the images comparing the banner to the original photos, and I was immediately baffled. At first, I found it hilarious that they had used AI to completely change our appearances, including my race and gender, but after looking at the comparison, I was also upset because I don't agree with Stanford making those choices about how we are represented, et cetera, et cetera. He goes on. It's a longer quote, but anyway, Victor, uh imagine if well i'm not gonna make you can i can tell i can tell you what it was uh some 51 years ago i enrolled in stanford as a graduate student in the phd program and i can tell you in 1975 it was mostly white 90 there were just starting to become a lot of chinese immigrants but not very many and i can tell you but when i say mostly i would say 10 percent of the student body was hispanic or black i would what would have happened if they were appealing to some you know reactionary crazy people that were big donors and they had a picture of a lot the stanford students and they had two black people and eight white people and then they decided well let's just get rid of those black people and turn them into white people. People would get very, very angry. And that's what they're doing. They are trying to create a racial hierarchy. And the racial hierarchy they feel is DEI. And by that, they mean we are so racially obsessed in every aspect of Stanford University, race comes first. And what do I mean by that? If you want to graduate, we're going to try to peg you. You go to the Chicano graduation, you go to the Asian graduation, you go to one of those. Except, you know, you're not going to go to a European or white. That would be racist if you had a separate one. If you want to go to your dorm, we're going to call it a theme house, not a racially segregated, just like we're going to call the graduation adjacent graduation ceremonies. And if you're black, you'll go to a black dorm, Chicano, da, da, da. And what if you don't feel safe on campus? You can go to a racially segregated safe space. At least you could, I suppose, until recently. And now we learn that even though they, I guess it wasn't enough, Jack, after George Floyd to let in 9% of the incoming class, white males, that was about 190 people. think about that 190 out of about 2,000 entries uh or white males and then you have you're right next to Silicon Valley with 14 trillion dollars of market capitalization where there's about 500 white males that are the children of the wealthiest most powerful people in the world and they all want to go to Stanford and then you've got probably 500 administrators whose kids want to go to Stanford, another 500 faculty grandees that want their kids to go, and maybe 400 athletes, and you're going to pick. What you're basically saying is there's not going to be one working-class white kid who lives in Podunk or Selma, California, or Fresno who has a straight-A average and a perfect SAT because we don't want that person. We don't want him. We only want white people who can pay 10 million bucks or who are famous or can help our athletic program. And that's what's become. And then the weirdest thing about it, you cloak the whole thing, all of this pre-civilizational tribalism with diversity, equity, inclusion. We're caring people. We're inclusive people. We're so inclusive that if we see that we don't have the proper percentage, we're going to airbrush it away because that's what we do. We're Stanford and we're nice people and we're inclusive. And if we have a free speech area and we say you can, you have to be gone out of 24 hours. And if you want to take over that free speech area and you want to camp for four months and every single day basically call for the extermination of Jews in Israel from the river to the sea, we're not going to judge you. That's part of the cultural richness of Stanford. And that's what's so scary about higher education today. It's really bankrupt morally. And I didn't think they would stoop to that, though. and this this was not the school paper this was not this was the university uh that did this it's interesting it's bill it's billy ramirez it's not billy o'reilly i wonder what this also says about the perception of hispanics uh well they have a big problem with that because what most hispanics on census at least don't identify as hispanic they identify as white And I can tell you that, you know, we have a lot of indigenous people that are coming up to California from Mexico, but the prior cycles of immigration were largely from northern Mexico. And I can tell you the people I grew up with, if I looked at my senior picture of 240 people, they were probably 30% white. And I said, we're going to call that person Italian, that person Greek, that person dark-haired. You wouldn't know the difference. So Billy Ramirez might be mistaken as an Italian kid because they didn't know his last name. It shows you what we're dealing with. We're talking about abject racism, that we are so obsessed, we're afraid that Billy Ramirez didn't make it on this intersectionality pecking order. So we have to, the other thing they did, this is very strange because we were told the left, and it is left, has a, what's the word they use for overweight people, obese, obesity rights, that it's body shaming. Fat shaming, body shaming. Because I think fat shaming is now a responsible term. And they didn't just AI out Billy Ramirez and turn him into an African-American. They also took the two other politically correct people. I think one was Asian. It was an Asian girl with a roundish face. Yeah, post-AI, pre-AI, she had a roundish face. Yeah, but what was really sick about it was she wasn't that obese. She was very attractive, nice girl, and they made her thinner. And that plays into every one of the left's criticisms of the right. Oh, they're just interested in looks. And this idea of teenage girls throwing up and being forced to be thin and they're nervous. And all of this stuff is just pressures on this cheap, crass culture that has ideal weights. And then here, Stanford University sees a girl who probably is maybe five pounds more than they recommended rate, and they have to, I don't know, you have to transform her into somebody who's thin and fits their idea, not mine, not yours, their idea of what beauty is. And so it's pretty sickening.