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Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke'
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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To be fair, the aggrieved images generated by the AI included people of various ethnicity pictured as Nazi soldiers.
I don't know though... to me, it seems weird that the criticism is focused on "wokeness" and misguided inclusivity. Shouldn't people be more concerned about these images being the result of demoing a technology for falsifying historic records in a hitherto unthinkable scale?
There was an article posted here yesterday that said this was the problem.
Now that Google has taken action to help alleviate the issue, we now have the problem of "wokeness".
Any and all issues calling out wokeness as part of any problem immediately loses all credibility to me. If wanting to include other ethnicities in something, even if it's just to make the people with the money look better, I'm all for it.
Being inclusive in any way is league's better than the alternatives.
Agree.
Disagree, it's reasonable to criticize green, pink, whathaveyou washing even if there are many other worse things a company can do (discrimination, etc). I also think it's reasonable to find it offensive to depict Nazi Germany as a beacon of inclusivity.