Comment by scarface_74
1 year ago
Or you could realize that this is a computer system at the end of the day and be explicit with your prompts.
1 year ago
Or you could realize that this is a computer system at the end of the day and be explicit with your prompts.
The system still has to be designed with defaults because otherwise using it would be too tedious. How much specificity is needed before anything can be rendered is a product design decision.
People are complaining about and laughing at poor defaults.
Yes, you mean you should be explicit about what you want a computer to do to get expected results? I learned that in my 6th grade programming class in the mid 80s.
I’m not saying Gemini doesn’t suck (like most Google products do). I am saying that I know to be very explicit about what I want from any LLM.
That’s just the thing, it literally changes your prompt instructions to randomize gender and ethnicity even when you specify. If you do specify, it might flag you as being inappropriate and give a refusal. This has been a common strategy for image generators to try to combat implicit biases in the training data (more internet images of nurses are female therefore asking for “nurse” will always yield a female nurse unless the system appends randomly “male” nurse), but Google appears to have gone way overboard to where is scolds you if you ask for a female nurse since you are being biased and should know men can also be nurses.
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In this case the prompts are being modified behind the scenes or outright blocked to enforce just one company’s political worldview. Looking at the Gemini examples, that worldview appears to be “Chief Diversity Officer on a passive aggressive rampage.” Some of the examples posted (Native American Nazis and so on) are INCREDIBLY offensive in the American context while also being logical continuations of corporate diversity.
I’m the last person to defend any of Google’s products. I specifically said that I would be pissed if I explicitly stated a race and it refused to do it.
I’m a Black guy and I hate a lot of the DI&E initiatives that I first encountered at Amazon when I worked there.
I can say though that Amazon didn’t discriminate, corporate policy is equally toxic toward everyone.