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‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of colour.

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[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I, for one, welcome Japanese George Washington, Indian Hitler and Inuit Ghandi to our historical database.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.