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

For example, people of color tend to post fewer pictures of themselves on the internet, mostly because remaining anonymous is preferable to experiencing racism.

That is quite the bold statement. Source?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

I don't think I came up with that myself, but yeah, I've got nothing. Would have been multiple years, since I've read about that.
Maybe strike the "mostly", but then it seemed logical enough to me that this would be a factor, similar to how some women will avoid revealing their gender (in certain contexts on the internet) to steer clear from sexual harassment.
For that last part, I can refer you to a woman from which I've heard first-hand that she avoids voice chat in games, because of that.