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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by glimshe on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:39AM (#39465712)
As far as we know, there are no photos of Vikings. It's reasonable for someone to use AI for learning about their appearance. If working as intended, it should be as reliable as reading a long description of Vikings on Wikipedia.
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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by tycho-newman on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:49AM (#39465789)
We have tons of viking material culture you can access directly without the AI layer.

AI as learning tool here feels misplaced to me.

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by FrozenSynapse on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:57AM (#39465854)
what's the point of image generators then? what if i want to put vikings in a certain setting, in a certain artistic style?
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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by trallnag on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:47AM (#39468810)
Than put that into the prompt explicitly instead of relying on Google, OpenAI, or whatever to add "racially ambiguous"
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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by rhdunn on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:49AM (#39468843)
Then specify that in your prompt. "... in the style of ..." or "... in a ... setting".

The point is that those modifications should be reliable, so if you want a viking man/woman or an asian/african/greek viking then adding those modifiers should all just work.

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