Comment by blueflow

1 year ago

> Full disclosure, I'm not white

Thinking that your skin color somehow influences the validity of your argument is big part of the problem.

To be fair, I wouldn't put a whole lot of blame on them

The position is either self serving as you say, or perception based where other people determine the value of your argument based on your implied race.

The people on HN probably have a good percentage that align well with the latter and think that way, e.g. your opinion matters more if you're X race or minority. That's just who these people are, highly politically motivated people and just are PC day in day out.

It's one strategy out of many to reach these people from their world rather than everyone else's.

Probably. I honestly wasn't thinking about it that intently, I just wanted it to be clear I'm not feeling "left out" by Gemini refusing to generate images that might look like me.

  • Dunno if that is better. Like, if you feel left out because you cannot see yourself in depictions because they have a different skin color than you...

    • I definitely don't, but based on what I've seen I don't think everyone feels that way -- hence why I said that.

  • funny thing, i'm a white latino. gemini will not make white latinos, only brown latinos.

    it's weird how people like me are basically erased when it comes to "image generation".

    • It's a good illustration of the problem actually. All the prompts and post-training tuneups break the pathways through the network it would need to combine e.g. "Mexican" and "White", because it's being taught that it has to Do Diversity.

      If they just left it alone, it could easily generate "White Mexican" the same way it can easily do "green horse".