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‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of colour.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate on the use case you're describing? You were trying to make an image of a middle aged white man building Lego for your family?

[–] GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but it does not really matter what the rest of the prompt detail was? The point was, it was supposed to me an image of me doing an activity. I'd clearly prompted for a white man, but it gave me two other images that were completely not that. Why was Gemini deviating from specific prompts like that? Seems the identical issue to the case with the Nazis, just introducing variations completely of its own.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah yeah sure sure but why were you generating an image of a middle aged white man building Lego for your family? I'm baffled.

[–] GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That is really just not relevant at all to the discussion here, but to satisfy your curiosity, I'm busy building a Lego model that a family member sent me, so the generated AI photo was supposed to depict someone that looked vaguely like me building such a Lego model. I used Bing in the past, and it has usually delivered 4 usable choices. Fact that Google gave me something that was distinctly NOT what I asked for, means it is messing with the specifics that are asked for.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why use an AI? Just like... take a selfie

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So, what you're saying is that white people shouldn't use AI?

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

It would appear that is exactly what I'm saying as long as the reader lacked any reading comprehension skills.

[–] memfree@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

I'm not the lego person, but I am not taking that selfie because: 1) I don't want to clean the house to make it look all nice before judgey relatives critique the pic, 2) my phone is old and all its pics are kinda fish-eyed, 3) I don't actually want to spend the time doing the task right now when AI can get me an image in seconds.