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If accurately reflects the world population then only one in six pictures will be a white person. Half the pictures will be Asian, another sixth will be Indian.
by StrictDabbler 4y ago
If accurately reflects the world population then only one in six pictures will be a white person. Half the pictures will be Asian, another sixth will be Indian.
Slightly more than half of the pictures will be women.
That accurately represents the world's diversity. It won't accurately reflect the world's power balance but that doesn't seem to be their goal.
If you want to say "white male CEO" because you want results that support the existing paradigm it doesn't sound like they'll stop you. I can't imagine a more boring request.
Let's look at interesting questions:
If you ask for "victorian detective" are you going to get a bunch of Asians in deerstalker caps with pipes?
What about Jedi? A lot of the Jedi are blue and almost nobody on Earth is.
Are cartoon characters exempt from the racial algorithm? If I ask for a Smurf surfing on a pizza I don't think that making the Smurf Asian is going to be a comfortable image for any viewer.
What about ageism? 16% of the population is over sixty. Will a request for "superhero lifting a building" have an 16% chance of being old?
If I request a "bad driver peering over a steering wheel" am I still going to get an Asian 50% of the time? Are we ok with that?
I respect the team's effort to create an inclusive and inoffensive tool. I expect it's going to be hard going.
- bequanna 4y ago> inoffensive tool. Wouldn't that result end up being like "inoffensive art" or "inoffensive comedy"? Bland, boring and Corporate-PC.
- driverdan 4y agoTo a certain degree, yes. They care more about the image of the project than art. Considering a large amount of art depicts non-sexual nudity yet they block all nudity, art is not their primary concern.
- bequanna 4y agoSome people claim to be emotionally "triggered" by images of police. Does that mean DALL-E should also start blocking images that contain police?
- erikpukinskis 4y agoBeing offensive is only one way to be interesting. There are others, like being clever, or being absurd, or being goofy, or being poignant, or being refreshing. Of the good stuff, offensive humor is only a tiny slice.
- jazzyjackson 4y agooffensive to whom is the sticking point when it comes to comedy it takes a special talent to please everybody
- visarga 4y agoYou know a surprising way to solve the issues you presented? You train another model to trick DALL-E to generate undesirable images. It will use all its generative skills to probe for prompts. Then you can use those prompts to fine-tune the original model. So you use generative models as a devil's advocate. - Red Teaming Language Models with Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03286 https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03286