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.
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.