Comment by alpaca128
1 year ago
Google probably would have gotten a better response to this AI if they only inserted the "make it diverse" prompt clause in a random subset of images. If, say, 10% of nazi images returned a different ethnicity people might just call it a funny AI quirk, and at the same time it would guarantee a minimum level of diversity. And then write some PR like "all training data is affected by systemic racism so we tweaked it a bit and you can always specify what you want".
But this intransparent heavy-handed approach is just absurd and doesn't look good from any angle.
We sort of agree, I think. Almost anything would be better than what they did, though I still think unless you explicitly ask for black nazis, you never ought to get nazis that aren't white, and at the same time, if you explicitly ask for white people, you ought to get them too, of course, given there are plenty of contexts where you will have only white people.
They ought to try to do something actually decent, but in the absence of that not doing the stupid shit they did would have been better.
What they've done both doesn't promote actual diversity, but also serves to ridicule the very notion of trying to address biases in a good way. They picked the crap attempt at an easy way out, and didn't manage to do even that properly.