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I think its great that some consideration was given by Gemma to the 2.3 million Norwegian immigrants. However it is/was very consistent in which kind of Norwegi

I think its great that some consideration was given by Gemma to the 2.3 million Norwegian immigrants. However it is/was very consistent in which kind of Norwegians it decided to show regardless of the prompt 100% of the time. In fact it was quite adamant regardless of the time period or geography. Rather mysteriously if you try it now as opposed to when it came out the results currently only show non-immigrant Norwegians. So is it wrong now? Because now it switched to exclusively ignoring the 4.5 million immigrants and only showing me the boring OG Norwegians. I for one am outraged that the 8.9 million people of color Norwegian immigrants are presently under represented by Google. There is a serious risk of misleading people.

hnbad 3y ago
Cut down on the grandstanding maybe. It's clear from its descriptions and what we known now that they just carelessly added "diverse ethnicities and genders" or whatever to prompts across the board to compensate for a model that otherwise clearly would have defaulted to just spitting out pictures of white people for most prompts. That's not part of some nefarious agenda to destroy Truth and history but literally just trying to cover their asses because Google has a history of accidental racism (e.g. the "tagging Black people as gorillas" incident a while back). Pretending that a shoddy AI image generated with a blatant inability to produce consistent output is a "serious risk" is ridiculous. The thing wasn't even able to give you a picture of the founding fathers that didn't look like a Colors of Benetton ad. I struggle to imagine what tangible risk this "misinfo" would have. Norwegians being the wrong color? And what harm does that do? Bad assumptions about the prevalence of sickle cell anemia?

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I think its great that some consideration was given by Gemma to the 2.3 million Norwegian immigrants. However it is/was very consistent in which kind of Norwegi

by verticalscaler 3y ago

hnbad 3y ago
Cut down on the grandstanding maybe. It's clear from its descriptions and what we known now that they just carelessly added "diverse ethnicities and genders" or whatever to prompts across the board to compensate for a model that otherwise clearly would have defaulted to just spitting out pictures of white people for most prompts. That's not part of some nefarious agenda to destroy Truth and history but literally just trying to cover their asses because Google has a history of accidental racism (e.g. the "tagging Black people as gorillas" incident a while back). Pretending that a shoddy AI image generated with a blatant inability to produce consistent output is a "serious risk" is ridiculous. The thing wasn't even able to give you a picture of the founding fathers that didn't look like a Colors of Benetton ad. I struggle to imagine what tangible risk this "misinfo" would have. Norwegians being the wrong color? And what harm does that do? Bad assumptions about the prevalence of sickle cell anemia?