[rayiner]

I think the bigger problem is that “show more diversity” is a poorly specified mandate. “Diversity” is a narrow concept that arose in the context of college admissions and employment to ensure that people were not being discriminated against on the basis of race. If you say “show me pictures of Harvard students” it’s fair to expect racial diversity in the result. (But you’d probably get that just from the training data.)

But it’s not a concept that makes sense when you generalize it outside the narrow context in which it originates. Especially when your notion of “diversity” is particular to the racial politics of a former slaveholding country that has recently experienced mass immigration from Latin America and Asia. What does “show more diversity” mean in the context of China or Japan? Or even Spanish Harlem? What does it mean in the context of families? Most of the world isn’t diverse, and most of history isn’t diverse, for reasons that are wholly innocuous.