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> This is not that. Asking DALLE for a bunch of football players, would expectedly produce a huddled group of black men. No issue, because the NFL are dispropor
by less_less 4y ago
> This is not that. Asking DALLE for a bunch of football players, would expectedly produce a huddled group of black men. No issue, because the NFL are disproportionately black men. No outrage, either.
This is not great. Only about 57% of NFL players are black, and the percentage is more like 47% among college players. It would be better to at least reflect the diversity of the field, even if you don't think it should be widened in the name of dispelling stereotypes.
> Asking DALLE for a group of criminals, likewise, produces a group of black men. Outage! Except statistically, this is not a surprise, as a disproportionate amount of criminals are black men.
Only about 1/3 of US prisoners are black. (Not quite the same as "criminals" but of course we don't always know who is committing crimes, only who is charged or convicted.) That's disproportionate to their population, but it's not even close to a majority. If DALLE were to exclusively or primarily return images of black men for "criminals", then it would be reinforcing a harmful stereotype that does not reflect reality.