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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Why would anyone expect "nuance" from a generative AI? It doesn't have nuance, it's not an AGI, it doesn't have EQ or sociological knowledge. This is like that complaint about LLMs being "warlike" when they were quizzed about military scenarios. It's like getting upset that the clunking of your photocopier clashes with the peaceful picture you asked it to copy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's generating racially diverse nazis due to companies tinkering with the prompts under the hood to counterweight biases in the training data. A naive implementation of generative AI wouldn't output black or Asian nazis.

it doesn't have EQ or sociological knowledge.

It sort of does (in a poor way), but they call it bias and tries to dampen it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree. The article complained about the lack of nuance in generating responses and I was responding to the ability of LLMs and Generative AI to exhibit that. Your points about bias I agree with

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why shouldn't we expect more and better out of the technologies that we use? Seems like a very reactionary way of looking at the world

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I DO expect better use from new technologies. I don't expect technologies to do things that they cannot. I'm not saying it's unreasonable to expect better technology I'm saying that expecting human qualities from an LLM is a category error