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.
Here we go again
Actually Google made a huge success by training an AI to ignore personal characteristics like skin color or gender when generating images. It uses a “generic human average”, and that’s awesome!
Normally models like these replicate categorization by (racial/gender) categories of the society it created them.Gemini completely misses categorization by these features. Of course it also loses the contemporary context, because the concepts of race & gender still impacts most of humanity.
But for what it is it’s a huge success.
I wouldn’t call generating images for prompts asking for specific people that are completely wrong a “huge success”.
the issue isn’t that it generates diverse people, thats actually good.
the issue is that it forces inclusivity without regard for the prompt.
You shouldn’t be using a waste of electricity like image generators anyway.
If you actually need an image, commission an artist.
I don’t “actually need” an image, nor can I afford to commission a fraction of what I made with stable diffusion.
I am not willing to spend $20-30 (what I can afford, once a month) on a commission for one image that I may or may not like only to end up using it as a wallpaper.
If I owned a corporation and wanted professional art I will definitely commission or employ artists.
