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by robswc 854 days ago
Yea. Just ask it anything about historical people/cultures and it will seemingly lobotomize itself.

I asked it about early Japan and it talked about how European women used Katanas and how Native Americans rode across the grassy plains carrying traditional Japanese weapons. Pure made up nonsense that not even primitive models would get wrong. Not sure what they did to it. I asked it why it assumed Native Americans were in Japan in the 1100s and it said:

> I assumed [...] various ethnicities, including Indigenous American, due to the diversity present in Japan throughout history. However, this overlooked [...] I focused on providing diverse representations without adequately considering the specific historical context.

How am I supposed to take this seriously? Especially on topics I'm unfamiliar with?

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From one of the Twitter threads linked above:

> they insert random keyword in the prompts randomly to counter bias, that got revealed with something else I think. Had T shirts written with "diverse" on it as artifact

This was exposed as being the case with OpenAI's DALL-E as well - someone had typed a prompt of "Homer Simpson wearing a namebadge" and it generated an image of Homer with brown skin wearing a namebadge that said 'ethnically ambiguous'.

This is ludicrous - if they are fiddling with your prompt in this way, it will only stoke more frustration and resentment - achieving the opposite of why this has been implemented. Surely if we want diversity we will ask for it, but sometimes you don't, and that should be at the user's discretion.\

Another thread for context: https://twitter.com/napoleon21st/status/1760116228746805272