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Why, exactly, are you asking an AI for pictures of a white family? Seems extremely strange.

camdenlock 3y ago
Would it be equally extremely strange to ask an AI for pictures of a black or asian family? You may be telling on yourself here.
- bradjohnson 3y ago
  If someone is asking an AI for pictures specifically of a black or asian family I would assume they are corporate HR. If someone's asking an AI for pictures specifically of a white family I would assume their comment history includes rants about the great replacement theory.
  - camdenlock 3y ago
    Well, at least you admit your racism openly I guess.
  - inemesitaffia 3y ago
    You're racist then. Openly too. Don't you realize this is blackface? Sometimes people want photos of families that look like their current reality. I wouldn't want someone from a visibly different ethnicity when I'm looking for something like this. Even black communities around me have visibly discernable differences. Where I live driving an hour might be enough. We aren't a monolith anywhere When you take photos of your family do you rent others of a different ethnicity to avoid looking racist?
  - JPKab 3y ago
    My wife is the daughter of Filipino immigrants, so obviously my kids are mixed race and we don't fit the profile of a "white" family, but my take from your comment is that you spend way too much time thinking about tribal identity politics. If I'm writing a short story (let's say it's fan fiction for "Little Women") about a family in a New England village in the 1860s, images that include non-white people in them are going to look absurd and be ahistorical. Your assumption that the only reason to prompt for an image of an ethnically homogenous family is due to bigotry appears to reflect a negative and pessimistic view of humans. I would guess this view stems from spending too much time reading Twitter comments and forgetting that they are written by a tiny, non-represenative sample of the population that skews towards derangment.
    - bradjohnson 3y ago
      Congrats on being married, but I'm not sure what your family's ethnic identity has to do with your really cool short story and accompanying AI generated picture idea. It's the perfect example really, I can't believe I ever thought it was weird to type "picture of white family" into a generative AI. I get that people will be really sad that they don't get to look at your AI generated 1860s white family because Google has made it illegal for all AIs to create images of white people. However I'll do you a solid: I happen to know a couple white families and I'll get them to pose for your short story. Just PM me the description and I'll hook you up.
      - dekhn 3y ago
        Please stop. You're commenting in bad faith, not adding anything to the discussion, and are not really engaging with other commenters based on the substance of their comments.
inemesitaffia 3y ago
You realize this statement is racist?
defrost 3y ago
Could be a staff writer for NME looking for quirky images to go up alongside a review of Whitest Boy On The Beach by Fat White Family. The possibilities are many.
- bradjohnson 3y ago
  Not familiar with what NME means but perhaps they could check literally any stock photo site instead of the only busted AI that doesn't show this one particular thing?
  - defrost 3y ago
    British version of Rolling Stone that's fifteen years older. New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie'. > but perhaps they could check .. Right now, maybe, although they have staff photographers to shoot content by description - in the near future they and other magazines would want good AI image generation sites that can generate side content for pale white scottish bands and for Little Simz returning to roots in Nigeria: https://youtu.be/tvY31eN3gtE?t=61 https://youtu.be/tvY31eN3gtE?t=61
pests 3y ago
Sorry to offend you!
- bradjohnson 3y ago
  Thanks for apologizing. Unfortunately such a dumb, contrived complaint has caused me permanent damage from which I may never recover.
dekhn 3y ago
No, it's not extremely strange.
- bradjohnson 3y ago
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almatabata 3y ago
There are artistic reasons why you would want to indicate white as the skin color. For example maybe you want a snow woman that fades into the snow.
- bradjohnson 3y ago
  You may have replied to the wrong comment because I think we're here talking about how this dude can't figure out how to find a picture of a white family on the internet.
  - stale2002 3y ago
    He could want the family in specific poses or wearing certain types of clothing, or any other forms of image details. Which... Is the whole point of using AI. To be able to generate lots of different pictures based on your prompt. That's perfectly reasonable. Or maybe they just wanted a picture that looks like themself to post as a profile picture, for example. Id hope that you don't support people posting profile pictures of themselves in blackface. And in order to not do that, the AI needs to follow the prompt of the user.

Would it be equally extremely strange to ask an AI for pictures of a black or asian family? You may be telling on yourself here.

bradjohnson 3y ago
If someone is asking an AI for pictures specifically of a black or asian family I would assume they are corporate HR. If someone's asking an AI for pictures specifically of a white family I would assume their comment history includes rants about the great replacement theory.
- camdenlock 3y ago
  Well, at least you admit your racism openly I guess.
- inemesitaffia 3y ago
  You're racist then. Openly too. Don't you realize this is blackface? Sometimes people want photos of families that look like their current reality. I wouldn't want someone from a visibly different ethnicity when I'm looking for something like this. Even black communities around me have visibly discernable differences. Where I live driving an hour might be enough. We aren't a monolith anywhere When you take photos of your family do you rent others of a different ethnicity to avoid looking racist?
- JPKab 3y ago
  My wife is the daughter of Filipino immigrants, so obviously my kids are mixed race and we don't fit the profile of a "white" family, but my take from your comment is that you spend way too much time thinking about tribal identity politics. If I'm writing a short story (let's say it's fan fiction for "Little Women") about a family in a New England village in the 1860s, images that include non-white people in them are going to look absurd and be ahistorical. Your assumption that the only reason to prompt for an image of an ethnically homogenous family is due to bigotry appears to reflect a negative and pessimistic view of humans. I would guess this view stems from spending too much time reading Twitter comments and forgetting that they are written by a tiny, non-represenative sample of the population that skews towards derangment.
  - bradjohnson 3y ago
    Congrats on being married, but I'm not sure what your family's ethnic identity has to do with your really cool short story and accompanying AI generated picture idea. It's the perfect example really, I can't believe I ever thought it was weird to type "picture of white family" into a generative AI. I get that people will be really sad that they don't get to look at your AI generated 1860s white family because Google has made it illegal for all AIs to create images of white people. However I'll do you a solid: I happen to know a couple white families and I'll get them to pose for your short story. Just PM me the description and I'll hook you up.
    - dekhn 3y ago
      Please stop. You're commenting in bad faith, not adding anything to the discussion, and are not really engaging with other commenters based on the substance of their comments.

inemesitaffia 3y ago

You realize this statement is racist?

defrost 3y ago

Could be a staff writer for NME looking for quirky images to go up alongside a review of Whitest Boy On The Beach by Fat White Family. The possibilities are many.

bradjohnson 3y ago
Not familiar with what NME means but perhaps they could check literally any stock photo site instead of the only busted AI that doesn't show this one particular thing?
- defrost 3y ago
  British version of Rolling Stone that's fifteen years older. New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie'. > but perhaps they could check .. Right now, maybe, although they have staff photographers to shoot content by description - in the near future they and other magazines would want good AI image generation sites that can generate side content for pale white scottish bands and for Little Simz returning to roots in Nigeria: https://youtu.be/tvY31eN3gtE?t=61 https://youtu.be/tvY31eN3gtE?t=61

pests 3y ago

Sorry to offend you!

bradjohnson 3y ago
Thanks for apologizing. Unfortunately such a dumb, contrived complaint has caused me permanent damage from which I may never recover.

dekhn 3y ago

No, it's not extremely strange.

bradjohnson 3y ago
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almatabata 3y ago

There are artistic reasons why you would want to indicate white as the skin color. For example maybe you want a snow woman that fades into the snow.

bradjohnson 3y ago
You may have replied to the wrong comment because I think we're here talking about how this dude can't figure out how to find a picture of a white family on the internet.
- stale2002 3y ago
  He could want the family in specific poses or wearing certain types of clothing, or any other forms of image details. Which... Is the whole point of using AI. To be able to generate lots of different pictures based on your prompt. That's perfectly reasonable. Or maybe they just wanted a picture that looks like themself to post as a profile picture, for example. Id hope that you don't support people posting profile pictures of themselves in blackface. And in order to not do that, the AI needs to follow the prompt of the user.