Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.
No matter what Google does, people are going to come up with gotcha scenarios to complain about. People need to accept the fact that if you don’t specify what race you want, then the output might not contain the race you want. This seems like such a silly thing to be mad about.
It’s really a failure of one-size-fits-all AI. There are plenty of non-diverse models out there, but Google has to find a single solution that always returns diverse college students, but never diverse Nazis.
If I were to use A1111 to make brown Nazis, it would be my own fault. If I use Google, it’s rightfully theirs.
The solution is going to take time. Software is made more robust by finding and fixing edge cases. There’s a lot of work to be done to find and fix these issues in AI, and it’s impossible to fix them all, but it can be made better. The end result will probably be a patchwork solution.
The issue seems to be the underlying code tells the ai if some data set has too many white people or men, Nazis, ancient Vikings, Popes, Rockwell paintings, etc then make them diverse races and genders.
What do we want from these AIs? Facts, even if they might be offensive? Or facts as we wish they would be for a nicer world?
It’s silly to point at brand new technology and not expect there to be flaws. But I think it’s totally fair game to point out the flaws and try to make it better, I don’t see why we should just accept technology at its current state and not try to improve it. I totally agree that nobody should be mad at this. We’re figuring it out, an issue was pointed out, and they’re trying to see if they can fix it. Nothing wrong with that part.
American using Gemini: “Please produce images of the KKK, historically accurate Santa’s Workshop Elves, and the board room of a 1950s auto company”
Also Americans: “AH!! AH!!! Minorities and Women!!! AAAAAHHH!!!”
I mean, idk, man. Why do you need AI to generate an image of George Washington when you have thousands of images of him already at your disposal?