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by changingwords 843 days ago
That doesn't work well in America, maybe works well in less diverse places like Europe/Asia.

If you're in NYC/SF and you search for "generate photos of doctors", you expect to see people of all colors represented. Yet the training data for a lot of this is based off white-centric Anglo-centric media.

"Good restaurant near me"? There's literally a dozen amazing cuisines around.

All this said, I'm actually not a fan of this forced 'diversity' in results. Just show me the data and hope that we'll have more diverse data sources.

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Another issue I see based on your comment is that segmenting based on locale (diverse mix in SF, white majority in Kansas) is that it can just take what knowledge and norms exist now and harden them.
There's no reason the results have to match the training data. Obviously, the current outputs it generates don't.