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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

was it really offensive or was it just "target selling pride clothes during pride month" offensive?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't know that "offensive" is the right word. More just "shitty" and "lazy".

Like they took the time out to teach it "diversity" but couldn't bother to train it past "diversity = people who are not white" or to acknowledge when the user is asking specifically for a white person or a different region or time period.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I, for one, welcome Japanese George Washington, Indian Hitler and Inuit Ghandi to our historical database.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I think the lesson here is that political correctness isn't very machine learnable. Human history and modern social concerns are very complex in a precise way and really should be addressed with conventional rules and algorithms. Or manually, but that's obviously not scalable at all.