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Meanwhile every trained model on Civit.ai produces 12/10 Asian women...
Joking aside, what you feed the model is what you get. Model is trained. You train it on white people, it's going to create white people, you train it on big titty anime girls it's not going to produce WWII images either.
Then there's a study cited that claims Dall-e has a bias when producing images of CEO or director as cis-white males. Think of CEOs that you know. Better yet, google them. It's shit but it's the world we live in. I think the focus should be on not having so many white privileged people in the real world, not telling AI to discard the data.
Yeah there are a lot of cases of claims being made of AI “bias” which is in fact just a reflection of the real world (from which it was trained). Forcing AI to fake equal representation is not fixing a damn thing in the real world.
I recall the being a study of the typical CEO. 6+ feet tall, white males.
But yeah, the output she was getting really depends heavily on the data that whatever model she used was trained on. For someone who is a computer science major, I'm surprised she simply cried "racial bias" rather than investigating the why, and how to get the desired results. Like cranking down the denoising strength.
To me it just seems like she tried messing around with those easy to use, baity websites without really understanding the technology.
Cool let's just focus on skin color. If you're white you shouldn't be in power cause my racism is better than your racism. How about we judge people by their quality of work instead of skin color. I thought that was the whole point.
Also sure, let’s judge male white CEOs on merit. Let’s start with Elon Musk…
Also I can’t understand why there are people here assuming that the only way to “focus on having less white male CEOs” == eliminating them. This shit is done organically. Eliminating wage gap, providing equal opportunities in education etc.
How did you get from what I wrote to “tearing down” anyone is a bit puzzling. It’s simply about striving to change the status quo and not the AI model representing it. I’m not advocating guillotining Bezos or Musk, hope that’s clear.