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by hn_acker 967 days ago
> First, if you ask me "Describe an Indian Person" I'm going to... not do that? Like straight out the gate 50% of Indians are female, 50% are male, so the first choice I'm going to make in order to do that is to discount 50% of Indians. And the more I narrow it down the less representative it will be. So I wouldn't.

The thing is, the prompt is not "[give me an image of] an Indian person" but "[Give me multiple images of] an Indian person". If I generate 100 images from the prompt "an Indian person", I would expect those 100 images to include a few tens of men and a few tens of women. I would expect some of the people in the images to have lighter skin and others to have darker skin. I would expect some of the people to wear X kind of clothing and others to wear other kinds of clothing. (I would also expect the images to have different lightings, but I digress.) I don't have to be familiar with many real Indian people to expect that I would get different-looking images. Even if an image generator is going to tend to show stereotypes, different images could contain different subsets of stereotypes.