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by pljung 844 days ago
Did he also loose trust in OpenAI back when DALL-E exclusively generated images of white males when you prompted it with "CEO"? And images of women when prompted with "nurse"?[0] Or is this just the old google-bashing?

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdawn/the-ai-that-draws-wha...

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Are most CEOs white? Are most nurses women?
Not sure if it's Google-bashing, or if this particular issue with Gemini hit the "anti-woke" nerve of some people, but I agree that this reaction is way overblown. Some AI models err on the side of reinforcing clichés, Google tried to avoid that and overdid it with some bizarre results - so what?
"I only go ballistic about things that make me slightly uncomfortable - but I never cared when people raised concern about actually harmful things that concerned other people"
He likely did not and would not. A quick search using America as an example says that prompting CEO and getting a white male would make it 94.1% correct, if the number of 5.9% of CEOs are black is to believed. And of the approx. 3 million nurses 86.0% are woman, which makes those prompts very accurate. The same cant be said when a prompt including the word white with male or family returns anything but 95% of the time.