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The department replaced a student, Billy Ramirez, with an AI-generated Black woman and digitally slimmed other students who appeared in the original image. The alterations were first reported by The Stanford Review, the university's student newspaper."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Ramirez, a Latino student, stated that the changes made him feel \"silenced and erased\" from a representation that was meant to include him. He discovered the alterations when a friend sent him comparison images. Stanford R&DE has not issued a public statement regarding the use of AI to modify the students' appearances."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on student identity"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Times of India reported that a \"White male student\" was replaced by a Black woman. 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