Just spent 4 hours trying to get a 'fair' AI image generator to stop making every CEO look like a middle-aged white guy.

I was making a presentation for work and wanted some generic 'leadership' images. Every prompt, even super neutral ones like 'person in a suit at a desk', gave me the same result. I tried adding specific details about ethnicity, gender, age... it either ignored them or made the images look weird and forced. My colleague said, 'The data's poisoned, it's just reflecting what it was fed.' It really makes you think about who builds these tools and what gets left out.

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olivia_allen4d ago

I tried making a simple birthday card with an AI image tool last month, wanted a picture of a "doctor with a patient." Got a white male doctor with a stethoscope every single time out of maybe twenty tries. Your colleague is totally right, the training data is just a mirror of the biases of the people who made it. It's frustrating because these tools are sold as this neutral, advanced tech, but they're basically stuck in the past. Makes you wonder what else gets filtered out before the data even hits the system.

patricia6852d ago

So what's the fix for that?

thomas3463d ago

Yeah, and it's the same with stuff like stock photos too, like @olivia_allen said.