That may also be a way to generate attention/visibility for Gemini considering that they are not seen as the leader in AI anymore? Attention is all you need.
Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
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#233Re: Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
#234We humans haven't even figured out how to discuss race, sex, or gender without it devolving into a tribal political fight. We shouldn't be surprised that algorithms we create and train on our own content will similarly be confused. Its the exact same reason we won't solve the alignment problem and have basically given up on it. We can't align humans with ourselves, we'll absolutely never define some magic ruleset tha…
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#235Re: Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
#236Apparently this is Google's Senior Director of Product for Gemini: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack--k/
And he seems to hate everything white: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GG6e0D6WoAEo0zP?format=jpg&name=...
Maybe the wrong guy for the job.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quite a hefty percentage of the people responsible for the current day's obsession with identity issues openly state racism against white people is impossible. This has been part of their belief system for decades, probably heard on a widescale for the first time during an episode of season one of 'The Real World' in 1992 but favored in academia for much longer than that.
It's because they have a very different definition of racism. Basically, according to this belief, if you are seen as part of the ethnic group in power, you will not be able to experience noteworthy levels of discrimination because of your genetic makeup.
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#238Re: Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
#239seems like as if Gemini was trained excessively on Google PR and marketing material. Case in point: https://store.google.com/
I’m in the UK and there’s predominantly white people showing on the page.
Entire careers are built on the sort of thing that led Google to this place, and they’re not gonna give up easily.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one is upset that an algorithm accidentally generated some images, they are upset that Google intentionally designed it to misrepresent reality in the name of Social Justice.
You mean some people's interpretation of what social justice is.
/s