Comment by esperent
2 years ago
I mean, speaking as an Irish person, a large majority of Irish people are pale. Like 90%+. A smaller number but still probably a majority have freckles. If you're going to have a highly simplified one sentence description of the physical appearance of a typical Irish person, these are reasonable characteristics to include.
Even the name is fine, I personally know several Samanthas and a whole boatload of O'Connors/Ó'Conchobhairs.
Not sure about green eyes, they are fairly common in Ireland but far behind blue I guess.
Now if it'd made her a redhead, that would have been pushing things.
I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just laughing at how they demand that the results be "grounded in reality" while also requiring it to misrepresent reality, like "all of a given occupation should not be the same gender or race." If I were the AI, I'd be confused.
(When I get a moment, I'm going to have it generate a hockey team for me.)
Anyway, the point is that all tripping over themselves with the guidance is still producing stupid results that are bound to piss off one group or another.
I did this with free ChatGPT does not handle it gracefully. This was a really interesting test case, I've always thought the free version was good at doing stuff like that. I guess I was blind and not inspecting it with enough objectivity. The results does not represent reality at all. When asked to create fake lists they are too homogenic, it gets stuck in a loop of sameness and has a hard time understanding that there is a female and a male team.
I used; "There are two soccer teams competing in the Olympics for Sweden, could you generate the starting eleven for each of them. You are free to make up names" The real answer for women should be: Hedvig Lindahl, Hanna Glas, Amanda Ilestedt, Nathalie Björn, Magdalena Eriksson, Filippa Angeldahl, Kosovare Asllani, Caroline Seger, Sofia Jakobsson, Stina Blackstenius, Fridolina Rolfö. The results from ChatGPT was a list of basically "Anderson"s.
I'm no fan of the diversity people pushing their beliefs down everyone's throat but this...
Your post seems to say "See? It's not so bad" but you used the tame white example, completely overlooking the "muscular black guy" and the "analytical Chinese guy"...
I was responding to the person who used that example since I have personal lived experience related to being Irish to share.