Comment by feoren
10 days ago
I'm assuming the downvoters are the ones who get offended at the sight of an Asian Viking, so let me ask you this:
In a work of fiction -- which you're automatically asking for when you ask an AI to generate an image -- in a work of fiction, would you be offended if you saw a white Ninja? A white Samurai? A white Middle-Eastern Jew born in Roman times? Would there have been internet outrage over pictures of white Samurai? We all know the answer: no, of course not. So why is an Asian Viking offensive when a white Samurai is not? Why are we supposed to get angry about an Asian Viking, but a white Jesus is just A-OK? What could the difference possibly be? Anyone?
People get offended about these all the time, it’s called cultural appropriation[1]. It’s not just whites who have culture they dislike being an appropriated though whites do get offended by this as well, like any people with a rich cultural tapestry.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation