An Asian fashion model is criticizing the use of AI filters to make her appear white in photos from a recent runway show that were shared — and then deleted — by the designer she’d walked for. In a now-viral TikTok video, Taiwanese-American model Shereen Wu demonstrated that a photo of her walking the runway for designer Michael Costello had been running through some sort of filtering software that changes her features radically, adding heavily airbrushed-looking makeup and — yes — changed her race. The designer went on to repost the photo — which appeared to have been run through an app similar to FaceApp, the free AI image editor responsible for all those “yassification” memes — and claimed after he deleted it that it was “fan art” that someone had sent him. Shereen Wu, a model based in Los Angeles, is alleging that American designer and ex-Project Runway participant, Michael Costello, has used AI to change her face in a fashion show picture. This incident has sparked debates about the increasing use of AI in the fashion industry.… pic.twitter.com/TUoDX6uep2 — Hypebae (@hypebae) November 3, 2023 Wu posted a screenshot in her video of Costello’s lengthy non-apology, where he said there was “nothing [he] could do” about the poorly edited image, told her he’d cast her in his show because he “liked” her, and pointedly did not apologize. “I understand as a model, I am replaceable,” Wu said in her video. “But I don’t get paid to do these shows,…Asian Runway Model Says AI Was Used to Make Her Look White