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I'm all for diversity in fiction, eliminating caricatures, positive portrayal of marginalized groups, etc. But that's different from saying "I think works which

I'm all for diversity in fiction, eliminating caricatures, positive portrayal of marginalized groups, etc. But that's different from saying "I think works which don't have these features should be banned". That kind of harm is just too dilute to justify this approach to me, especially given all the ethical concerns that exist if you force the model to stay only in the hands of its creators and make them its gatekeepers. (Bearing in mind that the creators of the model are a for-profit corporation, not a bunch of AI ethicists.) And again, I support improving the model so it doesn't generate racist (or any other -ist) content. I just think that improvement, and indeed all work on the model, is better done in the open.

danaris 4y ago
It's not about banning works that don't include such things. It's about genuine concern that entire categories of works that lack them cause problems. If none of my images from Stable Diffusion contain black people, that's not a big deal (I mostly don't even ask it for people, because it's not that good at them). If none of the images from Stable Diffusion or any of its brethren contain black people, that's a problem, especially if we start using these sorts of tools to generate art for things like games, book illustrations/covers, etc....but even if we don't; even if it's just a bunch of people playing around with them on the Internet. Not seeing yourself in media, even this kind of media, does a kind of harm that it's very hard for us "normal" (white, cis, straight, male, etc—and yes, I am all of those) people to fully grasp.