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Generative AI producing racially biased results? Stop worrying about it, say orange site tech bros. It's just reflecting reality. (news.ycombinator.com)

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If you ask Stable Diffusion for a picture of a cat it always seems to produce images of healthy looking domestic cats. For the prompt "cat" to be unbiased Stable Diffusion would need to occasionally generate images of dead white tigers since this would also fit under the label of "cat".

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[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

I looked up the article and, well,

Dillon said that DreamGF has a team of between 20-25 developers, mostly in Bulgaria, and that they previously worked at an NFT company. Dillon is also still the CEO of Virtual Mate, which makes a virtual reality enabled penis masturbator.

no part of my brain is surprised that the porn AI grifters pivoted straight from NFTs and VR masturbation aids, but I am somewhat surprised at how readily they admitted it, given how many AI cultists we’ve already met who used all the terminology and rationalizations of crypto grifters but suddenly fell silent when we asked them how much money they lost gambling on the crypto bubble when it burst