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I wonder if you followed this controversy: essence.com/news/ai-rac… where a user asked AI for photos of black doctors treating suffering white children. AI was unable to generate any and kept generating pictures of black doctors with white children. The controversy was raised in a Microsoft AI training session I attended and according to…
I wonder if you followed this controversy: https://www.essence.com/news/ai-racist-stereotypes/ where a user asked AI for photos of black doctors treating suffering white children. AI was unable to generate any and kept generating pictures of black doctors with white children. The controversy was raised in a Microsoft AI training session I attended and according to Microsoft this bias against the presentation of black doctors treating white children is 100% the result of a lack of diversity in the stock range of photos available to AI. Nothing to do with history or reality, just an inexplicable bias in the world of photography.
Apart from the fact this explanation treats us all like idiots, how does obscuring history help facilitate positive change? Surely an unflinching ability to face up to the truth is the faster track.
No! I hadn't heard about this. I mean, an AI image generator should be able to produce an image of a black doctor treating a white child. It knows what a black adult and a white child looks like, can presumably understand concepts like "doctor" and "patient", if it can produce abstract art of Michael Jordan playing basketball in a nebula, it can manage this.
As I said, I don't feel particularly daringly about specific requests. Creating an image of a black person dressed as a samurai or a viking is...fine, I guess. The issue is rpetending that this is historically accurate.