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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use a different model, this isn't hard. I hate when non-techies complain about problems they cause and act like its because of the tech.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is nothing new at all. Society has been conditioning women around the world to some arbitrary standard of "beauty" for millennia. The same conditioning has the same effect in machine learning. Well, duh.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC AI images are generated based on the data thats been fed and existing works to make them come out correctly. AI is just reinforcing in our own interpritation on what we as a collective see as "beautiful"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It reinforces Western interpretations. The patterns used to train generative AI are still biased and unreliable in that sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You can train a model right now for free. It's all open source. You provide the data and get the output you want. AI picture generation is not magic, it has to draw it's info from SOMEWHERE.

This article is 200% nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All AI promotes whatever the hell you feed it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


"GenAI is a type of artificial intelligence powered by machine learning models," Shibani Antonette, a lecturer in data science and innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, told the ABC.

When looking at the viral AI images, Dr Antonette says the model that generated them likely "did not have a diverse training dataset that contained many faces of people of colour with varying skin tones and shapes".

"After all, data for these models are pulled from the entire internet over the last few decades — without accountability for coverage, diversity, and inclusion — to cater to specific applications."

She dyed her blonde and didn't worry about letting her brown skin get darker from being in the sun, admitting it was to make herself more appealing to the male gaze here.

A research study by Cornell University from March this year revealed how popular AI models produced images of men with lighter skin tones for high-paying jobs such as a "lawyer," "judge" or "CEO".

"Tech-developers and companies rolling out services should ensure that their AI is fair and equitable by diversifying their datasets and avoiding over-representation of certain groups of people," she says.


The original article contains 998 words, the summary contains 192 words. Saved 81%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does this have to do with Australia?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ABC News posted it and I thought it would be interesting to discuss from an Australian perspective (which the article was written from). It resulted in discussion.

What is your problem with it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably autism. Things not being orderly enough makes me go reeeeeeeeee! :)