{"id":179117,"date":"2023-12-25T14:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/tech-conference-canceled-after-using-ai-to-generate-fake-women-speakers"},"modified":"2023-12-25T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:10:41","slug":"tech-conference-canceled-after-using-ai-to-generate-fake-women-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/tech-conference-canceled-after-using-ai-to-generate-fake-women-speakers","title":{"rendered":"Tech Conference Canceled After Using AI to Generate Fake Women Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tech-conference-canceled-after-using-ai-to-generate-fake-women-speakers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An organizer of an upcoming software and developer conference called DevTernity has been accused of cooking up fake women speakers featured on the event\u2019s website \u2014 AI-generated headshots and all.<\/p>\n<p>It looks a lot like a horrifically misfired attempt to pad out the apparent diversity in a heavily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2019\/02\/19\/women-built-tech-industry-then-they-were-pushed-out\/\" class=\"\">male-dominated<\/a> space, a hypothesis the event\u2019s organizer Eduards Sizovs has since forcefully denied.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre development triggered a resounding outcry, leading to high-profile engineering leaders from the likes of Microsoft and Google to bow out of the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An organizer of an upcoming software and developer conference called DevTernity has been accused of cooking up fake women speakers featured on the event\u2019s website \u2014 AI-generated headshots and all. It looks a lot like a horrifically misfired attempt to pad out the apparent diversity in a heavily male-dominated space, a hypothesis the event\u2019s organizer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}