Comment by Argonaut998

There’s a difference between the inherent/unconscious bias that pervades everything, and then the intentional, conscious decision to design something in this way.

It’s laughable to me that these companies are always complaining about the former (which, not to get too political - I believe is just an excuse for censorship) and then go ahead and reveal their own corporate bias by doing something as ridiculous as this. It’s literally what they criticise, but amplified 100x.

Think about both these scenarios: 1. Google accidentally labels a picture of a black person as a gorilla. Is this unconscious bias or a deliberate decision by product/researchers/engineers (or something else)?

2. Any prompt asking for historically accurate or within the context of white people gets completely inaccurate results every time – unconscious bias or a deliberate decision?

Anyway, Google are tone deaf, not even because of this but they decided to release this product that’s inferior to 6(?) months old DALL-E a week after Sera was demoed. Google are dropping the ball so hard