What's the impetus behind replacing the image with something even sexier?

Cute, but still not as sexy as the original Mandrill test image!

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Original-standard-test-i...

> The original Lenna is controversial, but I'm delighted to share the "ethically sourced Lenna": https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/

How is this ethically better than the original Lena - the model in that also one expressly approved the usage of the photo for the purposes it was being used for.

How did she expressly approve the original, when she didn't know for decades that it was so widely used?

> How did she expressly approve the original, when she didn't know for decades that it was so widely used?

Maybe I read the wrong interview with her, but when she found out about it she expressed happiness about it.

Since this replacement image was created after her interview, how is it ethically better in any way?

Lena Söderberg expressed her wish for her image to be "retired from tech" in 2019 (see the end of this clip, https://vimeo.com/372265771), when the above alternative image was published.

This feels better than the original anyway. I never liked the yellow color that one had. Maybe it was an artistic choice, but to me it just looked degraded, like when white plastic is left exposed to the sun.

Agreed. Seemed like a particularly poor choice to show off the capabilities of an image compression algorithm

Now I regretting leaving the machine vision field, I would love to use this picture in a paper xD

Oh my goodness that is delightful