Sounds crazy right? I half don't believe it myself, except we're discussing this exact built-in bias with their image generation algorithm.
> No. If you look at any black families in the search results, you'll see that it's keying off the term "white".
Obviously they are keying off alternate meanings of "white" when you use white as a race. The point is, you cannot use white as a race in searches.
Google any other "<race> family", and you get exactly what you expect. Black family, asian family, indian family, native american family. Why is white not a valid race query? Actually, just typing that out makes me cringe a bit, because searching for anything "white" is obviously considered racist today. But here we are, white things are racist, and hence the issues with Gemini.
You could argue that white is an ambiguous term, while asian or indian are less-so, but Google knows what they're doing. Search for "white skinned family" or similar and you actually get even fewer white families.
> This is conspiratorial thinking at its finest.
Sounds crazy right? I half don't believe it myself, except we're discussing this exact built-in bias with their image generation algorithm.
> No. If you look at any black families in the search results, you'll see that it's keying off the term "white".
Obviously they are keying off alternate meanings of "white" when you use white as a race. The point is, you cannot use white as a race in searches.
Google any other "<race> family", and you get exactly what you expect. Black family, asian family, indian family, native american family. Why is white not a valid race query? Actually, just typing that out makes me cringe a bit, because searching for anything "white" is obviously considered racist today. But here we are, white things are racist, and hence the issues with Gemini.
You could argue that white is an ambiguous term, while asian or indian are less-so, but Google knows what they're doing. Search for "white skinned family" or similar and you actually get even fewer white families.