Germans can't be black? I never knew that... Honestly at this point, they should just ban the word woke unless we're talking about sleeping. It's such a horribly aged and poorly chosen misnomer.
There is no win with AI image generation, anyone can ask it to do anything nefarious at any time... Artists can technically draw any picture they want, so I really don't know why they're always trying to do PR control over tools.
Instead, they need to apply the logic to improve account control in order to censor and properly tag explicit and offensive material. I still see snuff videos on TikTok and Reddit, I'm worried about kids seeing some of the horrible stuff I've seen online, at this point Ai should be flawless in IDing and tagging negative content. Ai should flawlessly ID the people sharing nefarious content without proper context and even handle tech support and appeals for wrongful cases quickly... That's the real type of use case for AI, not limiting and constantly extinguishing what can be generated by creative minds as much as they do.
No one is saying they can't be, but they tend not to be.
When you ask for a photo of a viking and 75% of the results are Asian/African/native-american, and the only picture of a "viking" is Netflix adaptation version with dreadlocks, leather bracelets and dirt over his face then whatever anti-bias thing they were doing clearly is doing the opposite of what it's supposed to and it's objectively making their product worse.
Stable Diffusion will happily make me Germans, Scandinavians and black people, no matter whether their job description includes raiding coastal cities or not. And it will do so whenever asked for. And without annoying moralizing lectures. Also it runs on my computer and they can't take it away from me tomorrow because they've deemed cats eating fish to be "harmful" overnight. (context: Gemini sometimes refuses to make pictures of animals eating animals, but it's not consistently refusing to)
This mishap is Silicon tech bros engaging in cultural colonialism imposing their own narrow view on the world because they think the hallucinogens they took on holiday somehow made them more enlightened and better than those plebs slaving away outside of their citadel.
Funnily enough they took it offline because it was generating black soldiers when you asked it to generate a picture of a Nazi. Which ironically is more realistic than the black Scandinavians that Google doesn't have a problem with. The Nazi's did indeed have African, Asian and Middle-Eastern soldiers, and even Jewish ones.
Google doesn't care about truth or history. They are doing exactly what Orwell described in Winston's job: alter [the perception of] the past to control the future. I happen to think the ends don't justify the means, and Google has become Evil.
There is no win with AI image generation, anyone can ask it to do anything nefarious at any time... Artists can technically draw any picture they want, so I really don't know why they're always trying to do PR control over tools.
Instead, they need to apply the logic to improve account control in order to censor and properly tag explicit and offensive material. I still see snuff videos on TikTok and Reddit, I'm worried about kids seeing some of the horrible stuff I've seen online, at this point Ai should be flawless in IDing and tagging negative content. Ai should flawlessly ID the people sharing nefarious content without proper context and even handle tech support and appeals for wrongful cases quickly... That's the real type of use case for AI, not limiting and constantly extinguishing what can be generated by creative minds as much as they do.