I get that it's stupid and there isn't much more to say.
But why is diversity always black people? It's not Italians or Swedes which would make way more sense, or even Indians or Chinese.
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Probably due to training data. If you do a google image search for diversity it will show black people.
no stop you're not supposed to think about it
Because "diverse" means "not white" in today's USA. It also sometimes excludes Asians. Italians and Swedes are considered White.
What's the joke?
OP probably assumes it's impossible that a black person might have been born in Scotland in 1820 despite the Atlantic slave trade being in full swing for centuries by that point making this entirely feasible.
Feasible? Sure. Pick 2 people randomly during that time? Unlikely. I have nothing against diversity. And I have nothing against an AI being encouraged to produce diverse outputs. I do think it's a clear indicator of the internal prompts that guide the AIs choices.
I mean, sure. But it's not like that's the only bias. What are the chances it was going to pick two attractive, seemingly well to do people and not two plain farmers or shepherds or something like that? Or people of very different ages or different heights, etc.
It's not choosing entirey randomly but it isn't showing us anything that couldn't have possibly existed.
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It's not choosing entirey randomly but it isn't showing us anything that couldn't have possibly existed.
No it's showing us anything the creators of the AI want us to see. It won't generate ugly people because the creators used much more attractive people to train the AI. Also, you won't see what your typical Scot looked like in the 1820s, because the creators made the AI change the prompt to add diversity.
It's pretty clear that it's not picking two randomly
The prompt wasn't to generate two equally statistically likely people or something. It was: show me two people. The AI did just that.
Random is implicit in that statement.
The AI did that. Because of a guided output.
What does "guided output" mean in this context?
You guide the output to influence it.
Like making it "diverse" (include a black person), a person being attractive and free of blemishes unless instructed, a person being a specific age like 20-30 unless instructed.
That are just a few examples what I meant.
That does not appear to be what's happening in that image.
In 1778, Court of Session judges ruled that slavery was incompatible with Scots Law. This ruling meant Knight could not be made to carry out tasks for Wedderburn or be taken back to Jamaica against his will.
Awesome. Knight is a hero.
OP would have to be pretty stupid if that's the case.
It looks like they made their account just to post this. They made an account just to tell others they're a moron.
Damn
Apparently the National Library of Scotland has caved to the woke liberal agenda of acknowledging that black people exist and your post deserves to be downvoted!
The fact that 200 years ago, Scotland had about 2 million inhabitants, all of whom were virtually exclusively ethnic scots. Up until about 40 years ago there weren’t even keeping track of that, with over 99% being ethnic scots at the start of the census in the 80s. (Source: Wikipedia)
Now this ai is obviously fabricating bullshit because it was trained to be diverse and inclusive.
There were more Scots in Africa at the time yet you won’t see AI adding them to pictures.
Exactly. Ask AI for 2 people from India born in 1860. How often one of them will be white?
There was some African dude who the king enjoyed so now it makes sense to depict your typical Scottish man in 1820s as black lol
Not really your typical Scottish couple, are they
Demoman?
I see two eyes so no? Maybe Michael Jackson...
Demoman before The Incident™.
Seeing black people on the screen always seems to piss someone off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's funny because their makeup, hairdressing, and style is largely incompatible with the beauty technologies and standards of the day.
Same as people throwing a fit how there were black officers in Napoleon's army in the 2023 film, not thinking that this could be possible, showing their lack of historical knowledge and ignorance.
You could have just told us that you are a moron.
of course it's possible, but like the AI said, it didn't generate a pic of Scots from the 1820s, it made a pic of Scots from the 1820s with added diversity. the user didn't want this but the AI changed the prompt.
If I wanted a pic of African people from the 1820s I wouldn't like forced diversity whites in that pic either.
Implying there were no black people born in Scotland in 1820
Implying there were no white people born in the continent of Africa in 1820
Do yourself a favour, never look up images of Alexandre Dumas (author of three musketeers) otherwise you might find out that black people were also born in France in 1802.
Woke mind virus 