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Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are ‘completely unacceptable’ (www.theverge.com)
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Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are ‘completely unacceptable’::In an internal memo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that the historically inaccurate photos generated by the company’s Gemini AI were ‘completely unacceptable.’

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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They had QA people, this was actually intended behavior

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

no? alphabet lost $90bil in value over this, why on earth would an entity choose to make a design decision that breaks investor confidence?

the initial choice to make the AI “diverse,” sure, that’s intentional. but the method by which it was done had unintentional consequences, and that is the problem which QA would have fixed.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They got the result they wanted, they just didn't get the response they wanted from the public. There's no way to QA this

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

there’s no way to QA public response

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_group

there are literally dozens of ways marketers have come up with to do exactly what you are claiming is impossible 🙃

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It's not the QA team's job to run a focus group. Ideally, you decide what customers want before building a product.