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Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men (techcrunch.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

5/6 not wearing them seems more statistically significant

[–] tabular 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The fact less people of that group actually wear it than do is significant when you want an average sample. When categorizing a collection of images then, naturally, the traditional garments of a group is associated more with that group than any other group: 1/6 is bigger than any other race.

[–] Womble 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

so if there was a country where 1 in 6 people had blue skin you would consider that insignificant because 5 out of 6 didn't?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For a caricature of the population? Yes, that's not what the algorithm should be optimising for.