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‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of colour.

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you create an image generator that always returns clean cut white men whenever you ask it to produce a "doctor" or a "business man", but only ever spits out black when when you ask for a picture of someone cleaning, your PR department is going to have a bad time.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 10 points 8 months ago

And even worse, it actually reinforces that image within users.