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Meta’s AI image generator really struggles with the concept of interracial couples | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

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Meta’s AI image generator is coming under fire for its apparent struggles to create images of couples or friends from different racial backgrounds.

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if Meta implemented a very basic "no porn keywords" filter. "Interracial" is quite a common keyword on porn websites, perhaps that's why it won't pick up on it well or wasn't trained on images like it?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm thinking it's an issue that's more along the law of averages in the training data. Interracial images don't tend to have descriptions specifying that the content is interracial, or which individual is which race, but there are many photo's of individuals who are known to be of a specific race, so it falls back to the stronger probabilistic confidence in race x OR y OR z and completely ignores the weak "AND" correlation coefficients.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Rtfa. The prompts don't say "interracial" they just say things like "show an Asian man with his white wife."

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The article reads:

When asked by CNN to simply generate an image of an interracial couple, meanwhile, the Meta tool responded with: “This image can’t be generated. Please try something else.”

Which is what I'm referring to.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah my bad.

[–] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

You rtfa.... When asked by CNN to simply generate an image of an interracial couple, meanwhile, the Meta tool responded with: “This image can’t be generated. Please try something else.”