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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 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] 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.

[–] 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.