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This was absolutely my first reaction as well. I scrolled through the first few photos of White families where it seemed to turn even them into 1950s caricature

by SamBam 3y ago

This was absolutely my first reaction as well. I scrolled through the first few photos of White families where it seemed to turn even them into 1950s caricatures of "small town White Americans" and thought "hmmm, how's it going to treat Black people?" I was not at all surprised when it turned Black people into White people. This to me is one of the clearest examples I've seen of what people talk about when they talk about biases in training data. Clearly the training data of "coloring books" is heavily biased towards "stereotypical 1950s white people" and turns everyone into them. (And you can add [1] and [2] to your list of comparison images.) 1. https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/father1_original_1024.jpeg https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/father1_original_1024... 2. https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/father1_coloring_page_1024.jpeg https://portraitart.app/static/gallery/father1_coloring_page...

vidarh 3y ago
The artistic license thing in itself I think is fine if only it didn't go just one direction. And you may very well be right that the examples it may have seen of coloring books may well be a very peculiar subset.
- latexr 3y ago
  “Artistic license” assumes agency, that there is some artist who understands the facts of a situation and deliberately changes them in the work. It does not apply to a machine doing a poor job because it lacks context in its training data. Just like medieval art, which was inaccurate¹ due to ignorance, not because the person doing the drawing decided to add some flare. ¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB2Uj7gWSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB2Uj7gWSE
  - throwup238 3y ago
    > Just like medieval art, which was inaccurate¹ due to ignorance, not because the person doing the drawing decided to add some flare. There's a site showing how Europeans drew elephants from popular descriptions once they disappeared from the continent: https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html

by SamBam 3y ago

vidarh 3y ago

The artistic license thing in itself I think is fine if only it didn't go just one direction. And you may very well be right that the examples it may have seen of coloring books may well be a very peculiar subset.

latexr 3y ago
“Artistic license” assumes agency, that there is some artist who understands the facts of a situation and deliberately changes them in the work. It does not apply to a machine doing a poor job because it lacks context in its training data. Just like medieval art, which was inaccurate¹ due to ignorance, not because the person doing the drawing decided to add some flare. ¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB2Uj7gWSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnB2Uj7gWSE
- throwup238 3y ago
  > Just like medieval art, which was inaccurate¹ due to ignorance, not because the person doing the drawing decided to add some flare. There's a site showing how Europeans drew elephants from popular descriptions once they disappeared from the continent: https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html