I’ve seen some of those posts, and while I don’t share the rage, I have to admit that it’s funny in an absurdist way.
These early guardrails on AI are so clunky and will need to be refined for sure.
I think this is the correct response though, it’s absurd and a symptom of how these generative models work.
The discussion should highlight for people that these models can be, and often turns are, wrong. There’s not a mechanism to verify factuality or accuracy, and you shouldn’t expect as much.
Instead, this group of people go into the ol playbook and pull out “wow, minorities are being forced on me again!” Generating these silly conspiracies and manufactured outrage.
Chill, it’s funny, laugh. Seeing minorities in something shouldnt be the reason (or the example) for outrage.
It’s genuinely hilarious how lazy it is, the companies just appending “Racially diverse” to prompts at random.
“Generate an image of a German soldier in 1943” and you get back a college advertisement full of Nazis, it’s ridiculous XD
You say people moved from Africa to the Mediterranean and maybe even further north just to be in a picture and all this in history?
It’s cause a lot of those fucks are serious. The surround themselves with other mayonnaise Americans and don’t physically see another race
Honestly it bugs me that AI generates historical Europeans who are overwhelmingly and astonishingly attractive, by modern standards. The ‘historical accuracy’ crowd doesn’t seem to notice this bias… for some reason.
Is there a chance that no one needed any AI generated pictures of historical figures in the first place (the only reason I can think of for making them is to agitate people on the internet)? They aren’t real and so obviously fake it’s not even funny. How do you want them to respond to this nonsense?
We are entering an era where nothing on the internet could be trusted. You going to say we had misinformation since forever, but nothing on this scale and this easy to make and spread.
White people shocked to learn there was a time before …white people
In this case it’s that the AI was race switching known historical figures. But that does highlight the problem. You can’t just tell the AI that Europeans are white because it’s never actually been true. There were POC all over Europe for basically all of recorded history. There just isn’t a switch to flip here, the AI needs to be able to understand race in context.
I mean… It’s not like most of European history happened around the Mediterranean sea which has a whole gradient of skin color around it. Who would have thought people could have dark skin in a place where check notes people have dark skin. Unbelievable
