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‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)

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Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of colour.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I think the lesson here is that political correctness isn't very machine learnable. Human history and modern social concerns are very complex in a precise way and really should be addressed with conventional rules and algorithms. Or manually, but that's obviously not scalable at all.