Losing Lena is a 2-minute film about a nude photograph from a 1972 issue of Playboy, an image often used by software and hardware developers as a test card. It's long past time to retire it. It's a poor-quality photograph no good for its overt use, and its covert use—sneaking a nude into the workflow—highlights what a sexist sausage party tech is.
I'm Lena and I retired from modelling long ago. It's time I retired from tech too.
I wonder what else might go wrong using a crudely airbrushed photo of a very pale woman to calibrate skin reproduction technology for fifty years.
