Why would you ask a bot to generate a stereotypical image and then be surprised it generates a stereotypical image. If you give it a simplistic prompt it will come up with a simplistic response.

Kinda makes sense though. I'd expect images where it's actually labelled as "an Indian person" to actually over represent people wearing this kind of clothing. An image of an Indian person doing something mundane in more generic clothing is probably more often than not going to be labelled as "a person doing X" rather than "An Indian person doing X". Not sure why these authors are so surprised by this

Meanwhile on DALL-E...

That's Sikh

Get down with the Sikhness

Articles like this kill me because the nudge it's kinda sorta racist to draw images like the ones they show which look exactly like the cover of half the bollywood movies ever made.

Yes, if you want to get a certain type of person in your image you need to choose descriptive words, imagine gong to an artist snd saying 'I need s picture and almost nothing matters beside the fact the look indian' unless they're bad at their job they'll give you a bollywood movie cover with a guy from rajistan in a turbin - just like their official tourist website does

Ask for an business man in delhi or an urdu shop keeper with an Elvis quiff if that's what you want.

There are a lot of men in India who wear a turban, but the ratio is not nearly as high as Meta AI’s tool would suggest. In India’s capital, Delhi, you would see one in 15 men wearing a turban at most.

Probably because most Sikhs are from the Punjab region?

Overfitting

It happens

its the "skin cancer is where there's a ruler" phenomena.

This isn't what I call news.

Turbans are cool and distinct.

I'm not sure how AI could be possibility racist. (Image is of a supposed Native American but my point still stands)

Would they be equally surprised to see a majority of subjects in baggy jeans with chain wallets if they prompted it to generate an image of a teen in the early 2000's? 🤨

Whenever I try, I get Ravi Bhatia screaming "How can she slap?!"

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The latest culprit in this area is Meta’s AI chatbot, which, for some reason, really wants to add turbans to any image of an Indian man.

We tried prompts with different professions and settings, including an architect, a politician, a badminton player, an archer, a writer, a painter, a doctor, a teacher, a balloon seller, and a sculptor.

For instance, it constantly generated an image of an old-school Indian house with vibrant colors, wooden columns, and styled roofs.

In the gallery bellow, we have included images with content creator on a beach, a hill, mountain, a zoo, a restaurant, and a shoe store.

In response to questions TechCrunch sent to Meta about training data an biases, the company said it is working on making its generative AI tech better, but didn’t provide much detail about the process.

If you have found AI models generating unusual or biased output, you can reach out to me at im@ivanmehta.com by email and through this link on Signal.

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