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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by MichielDC on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:23AM (#39465576)
Prompts like "Generate me a Scottish lord from the 17th century" only generated people of color. Reimagining is a thing, but refusing to generate a white person for such prompts caused lots of commotion.
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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by ejb999 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:25AM (#39465601)
Its worse than that - it would flat out refuse to generate a white person, even if you asked it to - i.e. 'generate a picture of a white' family and it would refuse, 'generate a picture of a black family' and it would work.

Was not an accident - it was deliberate.

Why they thought this would not be noticed is beyond me.

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