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

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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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[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago

Yeah yeah sure sure but why were you generating an image of a middle aged white man building Lego for your family? I'm baffled.

[-] GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

That is really just not relevant at all to the discussion here, but to satisfy your curiosity, I'm busy building a Lego model that a family member sent me, so the generated AI photo was supposed to depict someone that looked vaguely like me building such a Lego model. I used Bing in the past, and it has usually delivered 4 usable choices. Fact that Google gave me something that was distinctly NOT what I asked for, means it is messing with the specifics that are asked for.

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Why use an AI? Just like... take a selfie

[-] memfree@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

I'm not the lego person, but I am not taking that selfie because: 1) I don't want to clean the house to make it look all nice before judgey relatives critique the pic, 2) my phone is old and all its pics are kinda fish-eyed, 3) I don't actually want to spend the time doing the task right now when AI can get me an image in seconds.