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by nickthegreek 854 days ago
I dont think so. My boss wanted me to generate a birthday image for a co-worker of a John Cena flyfishing. ChatGPT refused to do so. So I had to move to describing the type of person John Cena is instead of using his name. I kept giving me bearded people no matter what. I thought this would be the perfect time to try out Gemini for the first time. Well shit, It wont even give me a white guy. But all the black dudes are beardless.

update: google agrees there is an issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39459270

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It feels that the image generation it offers is perfect for some sort of a California-Corporate Style, e.g. you ask it for a "photo of people at the board room" or "people at the company cafeteria" and you get the corporate friendly ratio of colors, ability-levels, sizes etc. See Google's various image assets: https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/ . It's great for coastal and urban marketing brochures.

But then then same California Corporate style makes no sense for historical images, so perhaps this is where Midjourney comes in.