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I doubt it is concious racial bias, it's most likely that the training data is made up of mostly white people and labeled poorly.
I also wouldn’t say it was conscious bias either. I don’t think it’s intentionally developed in that way.
The fact still remains though whether conscious or unconscious, it’s potentially harmful to people of other races. Sure it’s an issue with just graphic generation now. What about when it’s used to identify criminals? When it’s used to filter between potential job candidates?
The possibilities are virtually endless, but if we don’t start pointing out and addressing any type of bias, it’s only going to get worse.
Simple. It should not fucking be used for those things.
I absolutely agree but neither you nor I can stop people from using it for those purposes.
I feel like you're overestimating the capabilities of current ai image generation. And also presenting problems that don't exist.