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Gemini image generation got it wrong. We'll do better

36 points by alphabetting 3y ago

xhkkffbf 3y ago
Pretty nice and straight-forward. It doesn't say much but it does indicate that they understand that people found the deliberate lack of accuracy a real problem.
ein0p 3y ago
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- swyx 3y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Eschew flamebait lets not get ruffled feathers over capitalization of a word that is common practice in most professional published writing.
  - ein0p 3y ago
    Just because it’s “common practice” doesn’t mean it’s not openly racist. The solution is simple: capitalize both or don’t capitalize either. MLK would agree, I’m sure.
bbstats 3y ago
Just red team with a diverse red team
prng2021 3y ago
Sorry but I expect more from Google than a 10 person startup. You don’t get to talk about how much time and resources you spend on making safe, trustable AI while also clearly not testing and noticing that extremely basic prompts are broken. Their incompetence here has fueled the fire for the political right who were already saying that all tech companies are controlled by hardcore democrats that are trying to brainwash you and your children with liberal propaganda.
reaperman 3y ago
"AI Safety" (as defined by clients' corporate leadership being able to say "Yes, this AI is safe for us to use and won't cause repetitional harm to our company") is both worthwhile to approximate, but impossible to achieve. There exists content which will offend some important constituencies if the content is generated, but it will offend other important constituencies if the content cannot be generated. I think a huge part of "AI Safety" (as I defined it above) has to involve driving society towards a consensus on what content they should expect AI's will generate vs. will not generate. It's more okay if people are not happy about it, if they are also not surprised by it and it doesn't generate newsworthy headlines because the behavior is expected and mundane.

36 points by alphabetting 3y ago

Pretty nice and straight-forward. It doesn't say much but it does indicate that they understand that people found the deliberate lack of accuracy a real problem.

ein0p 3y ago

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swyx 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Eschew flamebait lets not get ruffled feathers over capitalization of a word that is common practice in most professional published writing.
- ein0p 3y ago
  Just because it’s “common practice” doesn’t mean it’s not openly racist. The solution is simple: capitalize both or don’t capitalize either. MLK would agree, I’m sure.

bbstats 3y ago

Just red team with a diverse red team

prng2021 3y ago

Sorry but I expect more from Google than a 10 person startup. You don’t get to talk about how much time and resources you spend on making safe, trustable AI while also clearly not testing and noticing that extremely basic prompts are broken. Their incompetence here has fueled the fire for the political right who were already saying that all tech companies are controlled by hardcore democrats that are trying to brainwash you and your children with liberal propaganda.

reaperman 3y ago

"AI Safety" (as defined by clients' corporate leadership being able to say "Yes, this AI is safe for us to use and won't cause repetitional harm to our company") is both worthwhile to approximate, but impossible to achieve. There exists content which will offend some important constituencies if the content is generated, but it will offend other important constituencies if the content cannot be generated. I think a huge part of "AI Safety" (as I defined it above) has to involve driving society towards a consensus on what content they should expect AI's will generate vs. will not generate. It's more okay if people are not happy about it, if they are also not surprised by it and it doesn't generate newsworthy headlines because the behavior is expected and mundane.