Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues

Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by xanderlewis on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:52AM (#39466359)

That’s because almost all of this is a distinctly American obsession and problem. Unfortunately it’s gleefully been exported worldwide into contexts where it doesn’t immediately — if at all — apply over the last five years or so and now we’re all saddled with this slow-growing infection.

Entire careers are built on the sort of thing that led Google to this place, and they’re not gonna give up easily.

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by busterarm on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:29AM (#39466738)

While I mostly agree with you, I just want to point out that the UK, Canada and Australia have this illness as well.

What was an American problem has become an Anglophone problem.

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by sevagh on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:36AM (#39467694)

The Anglosphere/commonwealth move as one under the heel of the U.S. There's no point speaking of them as independent entities that "happen to agree"

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by unmole on Thursday February 22, 2024 @01:42PM (#39471257)

> Anglosphere/commonwealth

India, Nigeria and Guayana move as one?

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by sevagh on Monday March 04, 2024 @01:05PM (#39593716)

The politically relevant parts of the anglosphere*

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by unmole on Friday March 08, 2024 @04:49AM (#39639542)

So, Canada and Australia are somehow more politically relevant than India?

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by andsoitis on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:01AM (#39468073)

> What was an American problem has become an Anglophone problem.

Memetic virulence.

But maybe it is also puncturaing through the language and cultural membranes, as evidenced by things like this material from a Dutch university: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/diversity-inclu...

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by trallnag on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:42AM (#39468721)

Nah, it's not just the US. Ever heard of the BBC? They are from Britain.

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by xanderlewis on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:33AM (#39469514)

You’ve missed my point. I’m complaining that it started in the US (where it makes comparative, though still very little, sense) and has spread to places it doesn’t belong.

I certainly have my own thoughts about the recent output and hiring choices of the BBC.

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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by optimalsolver on Thursday February 22, 2024 @12:52PM (#39470624)

I thought BBC was more of an American obsession?

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