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Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)

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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.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

At the moment AI is basically just a complicated kind of echo. It is fed data and it parrots it back to you with quite extensive modifications, but it's still the original data deep down.

At some point that won't be true and it will be a proper intelligence. But we're not there yet.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

Nah, the problem here is literally that they would edit your prompt and add "of diverse races" to it before handing it to the black box, since the black box itself tends to reflect the built-in biases of training data and produce black prisoners and white scientists by itself.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I pretty much agree with that