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> Full disclosure, I'm not white Thinking that your skin color somehow influences the validity of your argument is big part of the problem.
by blueflow 3y ago
> Full disclosure, I'm not white
Thinking that your skin color somehow influences the validity of your argument is big part of the problem.
- tiznow 3y agoProbably. I honestly wasn't thinking about it that intently, I just wanted it to be clear I'm not feeling "left out" by Gemini refusing to generate images that might look like me.
- blueflow 3y agoDunno if that is better. Like, if you feel left out because you cannot see yourself in depictions because they have a different skin color than you...
- tiznow 3y agoI definitely don't, but based on what I've seen I don't think everyone feels that way -- hence why I said that.
- fernandotakai 3y agofunny thing, i'm a white latino. gemini will not make white latinos, only brown latinos. it's weird how people like me are basically erased when it comes to "image generation".
- samatman 3y agoIt's a good illustration of the problem actually. All the prompts and post-training tuneups break the pathways through the network it would need to combine e.g. "Mexican" and "White", because it's being taught that it has to Do Diversity. If they just left it alone, it could easily generate "White Mexican" the same way it can easily do "green horse".
- latency-guy2 3y agoTo be fair, I wouldn't put a whole lot of blame on them The position is either self serving as you say, or perception based where other people determine the value of your argument based on your implied race. The people on HN probably have a good percentage that align well with the latter and think that way, e.g. your opinion matters more if you're X race or minority. That's just who these people are, highly politically motivated people and just are PC day in day out. It's one strategy out of many to reach these people from their world rather than everyone else's.