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Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke'
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Actually Google made a huge success by training an AI to ignore personal characteristics like skin color or gender when generating images. It uses a "generic human average", and that's awesome!
Normally models like these replicate categorization by (racial/gender) categories of the society it created them.
Gemini completely misses categorization by these features. Of course it also loses the contemporary context, because the concepts of race & gender still impacts most of humanity.
But for what it is it's a huge success.
I wouldn’t call generating images for prompts asking for specific people that are completely wrong a “huge success”.