Comment by feoren
1 year ago
People are not understanding what Gemini is for. This is partly Google's fault, of course. But clearly historical accuracy is not the point of generative AI (or at least this particular model). If you want an accurate picture of the founding fathers, why would you not go to Wikipedia? You're asking a generative model -- an artist with a particular style -- to generate completely new images for you in a fictional universe; of course they're not representative of reality. That's clearly not its objective. It'd be like asking Picasso to draw a picture of a 1943 German soldier and then getting all frenzied because their nose is in the wrong place! If you don't like the style of the artist, don't ask them to draw you a picture!
I'm also confused: what's the problem with the "picture of an American woman" prompt? I get why the 1820s German Couples and the 1943 German soldiers are ludicrous, but are people really angry that pictures of American women include medium and dark skin tones? If you get angry that out of four pictures of American women, only two are white, I have to question whether you're really just wanting Google to regurgitate your own racism back to you.
> If you want an accurate picture of the founding fathers, why would you not go to Wikipedia?
You're trying very hard to justify this with a very limited use case. This universe, in which the generated images live, is only artificial because Google made it so.
> You're trying very hard to justify this with a very limited use case
A very limited use case? These are cherry-picked examples. I'm responding to the specific cherry-picking they're doing.
> This universe, in which the generated images live, is only artificial because Google made it so.
No, it's artificial because it's coming from a generative model. If you want your image generator to always be 100% historically accurate, you better train it that way -- Google chose not to. But then don't be annoyed when it can't draw a picture of a dragon. In fact, what would you expect to happen if you asked it to draw "a dragon attacking a German WWII brigade?" Would you lose your mind because some of the German soldiers are Asian women? There's a damn dragon in the picture! What does accuracy even mean at that point?