Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i...
by UncleMeat on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:00AM
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And a stereotype of a phone doesn't have nearly the same historical context or ongoing harmful effects on the world as a racial stereotype.
Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i...
by vidarh on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:41AM
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The stereotype of a human in general would not be white in any case.
And the stereotype the person asking would expect will heavily depend on where they're from.
Before you ask for stereotypes: Whose stereotypes? Across which population? And why does those stereotypes make sense?
I think Google fucked up thoroughly here, but they did so trying to correct for biases also gets things really wrong for a large part of the world.
It might be "perfectly reasonable" to have that as an option, but not as a default. If I want an image of anything other than a human, you'd expect the sterotypes to be fulfilled. If I want a picture of a cellphone, I want an ambiguous black rectangle, even though wacky phones exist[1]
[1] https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/...