Comment by Aurornis
1 year ago
> 1. Attempt to correct inherent biases in training data and produce diverse output (May sometimes produce results that are geographically or historically unrepresentative)
The problem that it wasn’t “occasionally” producing unrepresentative images. It was doing it predictably for any historical prompt.
> Default to (1) and surely everybody is happy?
They did default to 1 and, no, almost nobody was happy with the result. It produced a cartoonish vision of diversity where the realities of history and different cultures were forcefully erased and replaced with what often felt like caricatures inserted into out of context scenes. It also had some obvious racial biases in which races it felt necessary to exclude and which races it felt necessary to over-represent.
> The problem that it wasn’t “occasionally” producing unrepresentative images. It was doing it predictably for any historical prompt.
I didn't use the word "occasionally" and I think my phrasing is reasonable accurate. This feels like quibbling in any case. This could be rephrased without affecting the point I am making.
> They did default to 1 and, no, almost nobody was happy with the result.
They didn't "default to 1". Your statement doesn't make any sense if there's not an option to turn it off. Making it switchable is the entire point of my suggestion.