Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was ‘woke’::After users complained Google’s Gemini had gone “woke,” the company said it will pause the image-generating feature of people while working on fixes.
My two cents, but the problem here isn’t that the images are too woke. It’s that the images are a perfect metaphor for corporate DEI initiatives in general. Corporations like Google are literally unjust power structures, and when they do DEI, they update the aesthetics of the corporation such that they can get credit for being inclusive but without addressing the problem itself. Why would they when, in a very real way, they themselves are the problem?
These models are trained on past data and will therefore replicate its injustices. This is a core structural problem. Google is trying to profit off generative AI while not getting blamed for these baked-in problems by updating the aesthetics. The results are predictably fucking stupid.
Corporations like Google are literally unjust power structures, and when they do DEI, they update the aesthetics of the corporation such that they can get credit for being inclusive but without addressing the problem itself.
Absolutely, 100% on the nose. And this needs to be a conversation on a civilizational level before income inequality spirals further out of control and our society devolves into chaos. Corpos like Google are so busy pretending that they’re addressing problems that the larger issues affecting people aren’t being talked about at all.
The results are predictably stupid, not because Google is too woke or the nebulous spectre of DEI initiatives, it’s stupid because it’s AI art. Why are people giving so much of a shit whether or not a fake image has white or black people in it?
the issue isn’t that it generates diverse people, thats actually good.
the issue is that it forces inclusivity without regard for the prompt.
I’m shocked that a website that shits on Google 24/7 is willing to defend their half-assed attempt at diversifying image data. Google’s PR team must be patting themselves on the back that anyone who disagrees with them is automatically against diversity.
No one is forcing anyone to prompt an AI to generate shitty art. Don’t act so wounded.
“Forcing inclusivity”. Boy, it would be awkward if a brown person heard you say that in real life. The reminder or non-white people existing is too much for some people.
Thats not what they said. The “forced” is refering to specific prompts getting overwritten. It makes sense if you dont specify e.g. skincolor to hav diverse results. It does not make sense to me that explicit statements of skincolor get overwritten.
Especially the comparison to real life is really not warramted here.
