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[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Probably due to training data. If you do a google image search for diversity it will show black people.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

no stop you're not supposed to think about it

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because "diverse" means "not white" in today's USA. It also sometimes excludes Asians. Italians and Swedes are considered White.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

It's pretty clear that it's not picking two randomly

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

The prompt wasn't to generate two equally statistically likely people or something. It was: show me two people. The AI did just that.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Random is implicit in that statement.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The AI did that. Because of a guided output.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

What does "guided output" mean in this context?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

That does not appear to be what's happening in that image.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

There were more Scots in Africa at the time yet you won’t see AI adding them to pictures.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Ask AI for 2 people from India born in 1860. How often one of them will be white?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Not really your typical Scottish couple, are they

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I see two eyes so no? Maybe Michael Jackson...

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Demoman before The Incident™.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Seeing black people on the screen always seems to piss someone off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's funny because their makeup, hairdressing, and style is largely incompatible with the beauty technologies and standards of the day.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tried to ask Gemini the same thing and it told me it was incapable of generating images at all... If I'm not missing anything that means OP just faked this to make the most tired and idiotic statement of every internet moron ever

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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