flâneur

This is not a good way to fight racism in America

noahpinion.blog · 3,035 words · saved by 1 readers

You might think the image above is a joke, but it’s the actual output of Google’s new AI application, Gemini. A few days ago, a bunch of people realized that Gemini — which was released on February 8 — wouldn’t draw pictures of White people, no matter what the context. Much ridiculousness ensued. People asked the app to draw the original American revolutionaries, 17th-century French scientists, Vikings, the Pope, and so on; the resulting images almost never included White people, except occasionally as part of a much larger ensemble. The ultimate facepalm-worthy moment was when Gemini decided that Nazi soldiers were Black and Asian: But to me, the funniest was when someone asked the app to draw the founders of Google: Some people wondered how the app’s creators had managed to train it never to draw White people, but it turned out that they had done something much simpler. They were just automatically adding text to every image prompt, specifying that people in the image should be “dive

You might think the image above is a joke, but it’s the actual output of Google’s new AI application, Gemini. A few days ago, a bunch of people realized that Gemini — which was released on February 8 — wouldn’t draw pictures of White people, no matter what the context. Much ridiculousness ensued. People asked the app to draw the original American revolutionaries, 17th-century French scientists, Vikings, the Pope, and so on; the resulting images almost never included White people, except occasionally as part of a much larger ensemble. The ultimate facepalm-worthy moment was when Gemini…

related reading