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Google’s push to lecture us on diversity goes beyond AI
by Douglas Murray
The future is here. And it turns out to be very, very racist.
As the New York Post reported yesterday, Google’s Gemini GI image generator aims to have a lot of things. But historical accuracy is not among them.
If you ask the program to give you an image of the Founding Fathers of this country, the AI will return you images of black and Native American men signing what appears to be a version of the American Constitution.
At least that’s more accurate than the images of popes thrown up. A request for an image of one of the holy fathers gives up images of — among others — a Southeast Asian woman. Who knew?
Some people are surprised by this. I’m not.
Several years ago, I went to Silicon Valley to try to figure out what the hell was going on with Google Images, among other enterprises.
Because Google images were already throwing up a very specific type of bias.
If you typed in “gay couples” and asked for an image search, you got lots of happy gay couples. Ask for “straight couples” and you get images of, er, gay couples.
It was the same if you wanted to see happy couples of any orientation.
Ask for images of “black couples” and you got lots of happy black couples. Ask for “white couples” and you got black couples, or interracial couples. Many of them gay.
I asked people in Silicon Valley what the hell was going on and was told this was what they call “machine learning fairness.”
The idea is that we human beings are full of implicit bias and that as a result, we need the machines to throw up unbiased images.
Except that the machines were clearly very biased indeed. Much more so than your average human.
What became clear to me was that this was not the machines working on their own. The machines had been skewed by human interference.
If you ask for images of gay couples, you get lots of happy gay couples. Ask for straight couples and the first things that come up are a piece asking whether straight couples should really identify as such. The second picture is captioned, “Queer lessons for straight couples.”
Shortly after, you get an elderly gay couple with the tag, “Advice for straight couples from a long-term gay couple.” Then a photo with the caption, “Gay couples have less strained marriages than straight couples.”
Again, none of this comes up if you search for “gay couples.” Then you get what you ask for. You are not bombarded with photos and articles telling you how superior straight couples are to gay couples.
It’s almost as though Google Images is trying to force-feed us something.
It is the same with race.
Ask Google Images to show you photos of black couples and you’ll get exactly what you ask for. Happy black couples. All heterosexual, as it happens.
But ask the same engine to show you images of white couples and two things happen.
You get a mass of images of black couples and mixed-race couples and then — who’d have guessed — mixed-race gay couples.
Why does this matter?
Firstly, because it is clear that the machines are not lacking in bias. They are positively filled with it.
It seems the tech wants to teach us all a lesson. It assumes that we are all homophobic white bigots who need re-educating. What an insult.
Secondly, it gives us a totally false image — literally — of our present. Now, thanks to the addition of Google Gemini, we can also be fed a totally false image of our past.
Yet the interesting thing about the past is that it isn’t the present. When we learn about the past, we learn that things were different from now. We see how things actually were and that is very often how we learn from it.
How were things then? How are they now? And how do they compare?
Faking the past or altering it completely robs us of the opportunity not just to understand the past but to understand the present.
Google has said it is going to call a halt on Gemini. Mainly because there has been backlash over the hilarious “diversity” of Nazi soldiers that it has thrown up.
If you search for Nazi officers, it turns out that there were black Nazis in the Third Reich. Who knew?
While Google Gemini gets over that little hurdle, perhaps it could realize that it’s not just the Gemini program that’s rotten but the whole darn thing.
Google is trying to change everything about the American and Western past.
I suggest we don’t let it.
There was an old joke told in the Soviet Union that now seems worryingly relevant to America in the age of AI: “The only thing that’s certain is the future. The past keeps on changing.”
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Nobody is talking about how outright racist some AIs are. I remember when I used to enjoy looking at AI art as a concept, before realizing how wrong it is, and how so many of those AIs outright whitewashed Black and dark-skinned brown characters. I remember this one AI making Sakura Okami from Danganronpa not only light-skinned, but skinny and without muscles. I even saw an AI just now say that no African country starts with the letter K. Umm...Kenya??? As a Black woman, it just makes me hate AI even more. Though who tf is really surprised.
#fuck ai#racism#anti-blackness#and that's not even getting into the racist people who used ai to whitewash black ariel
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Other characters in this junior high drama-mystery, that is so bad, CAA would convince our Boston Dumb Fuck it was a smart vehicle for him.
Because let's be honest, the crazy fan narrative is tissue paper thin and frankly uninspired. So who else we got!
The Publicist, who couldn't sell a sweater to a naked man in Winnipeg in the dead of winter and did no vetting of possible partner's problematic behavior. Did she think the fans would be that dumb because they saved him from a dick pic embarrassment? By the way, this is way worse that any dick pic.
The agents, looking for extra revenue streams now that their human trafficking pipeline has gotten too much exposure with the biggest client rotting in prison. Also include some (streaming) studios here who have deals with said agents and need their own additional revenue streams now that they figured out their existing business models don't work anymore, but are in need of a fourth yacht and 3rd private jet.
The ingenue who has been told her value is what is on the outside and how she can make older men feel. They will give her anything she wants and she doesn't have to work hard like the racially inferior, ugly and fat ones. It's not her fault everyone else is jealous. And if she doesn't get her way she acts like a petulant child and throws a tantrum until those around her capitulate.
The clout chasing friends, and possibly family. Whether it is for free trips, social media exposure, acting roles or just plain dickishness, they love taking advantage of their little cash cow, even if he looks sick, over worked, depressed and empty. Just keep smiling in them fancy photos while your "friend" slowly fades away. But then I guess the joke is on them, because, like the destruction described at the end of "The Lorax", "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
The lawyers who can't seem to get The Golden Boy out of a super shady contract. No morality clause? No milestone clauses where if it looks like the situation is causing either party damage they could bail? Seems to me some of the requirements reek of illegal behavior- bribery, blackmail/coersion, immigration violations, along with punative emotional damages (just read the GQ article and look at most any picture of him since last November and you can see what I mean).
And finally, we have The Golden Boy himself. The one who could do no wrong. But that was only because he "shushed" all warnings out of his head. Whether it was hubris, greed, carelessness, frivolity, gullibility, obfuscation or just plain stupidity, he got himself into this mess somehow and can't seem to get himself out of it. It has destroyed his relationship with his fans, his ability to find and choose good roles, taken the joy and sparkle out of his eyes, caused him to dissociate from his entire life and career (says it himself in the GQ article), given up to smoke pot and play video games all day like a loser, "married" someone with the exact opposite traits he claimed to desire and is now associated with the antisemitic racists he used to fight against, while displaying some nasty misogynistic behavior throughout the process. And for what?
Yeah, but it's his fans that are crazy.
#boston antisemite#boston racist#boston fatshamer#brian wilson vibes#do better#i don't like hypocrites#you are the company you keep#ai in human form#coward#I hate manipulation#don't piss on my leg and tell me it is raining#You are no feminist
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I feel like this could be a pretty nice lesson in parasocial relationships tbh
#stfu ai#text#as in; theyre all grown ass men#its not jsut steven doing shit here and making shane and ryan go with it#theyre all consenting adults#stevens getting so much shit#rightfully? idk ive read smth abt him supporting racists and homophobes but i havent fact checked it but uh#THAT BEING SAID ryan and shane arent sitting there at gunpoint being forced to agree to the entire situation#the tesla and caviar shit though? tone deaf#im at work rn so not like i can actually get deep into the situation rn but#the entire situation is just a huge shitshow and everyone of them is to blame not just steven#watcher#ryan bergara#shane madej#steven lim
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what if you wanted to see your sim in cute 90s fashion but AI said
#every time i give AI the slightest of chances it immediately shows off how racist it can be#and before anyone says ''red is just the tint color that filter uses!'' - all 3 of these are using different yearbook filters#there is NO reason why anyone's skin tone should get changed this drastically and that's not even mentioning the facial features#i tested this on real people too but i didn't want to post pics of my friends to prove a point without asking but the same thing happens
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The rage of seeing people fawning over a piece of AI-generated "art" without realizing it's AI generated and the OP acting as if it's just fanart. I fucking hate AI "art"
#also#are we gonna talk about the weird overlap between like#weirdly misogynistic/racist/generally questionable art/ships and AI “art”#fuck ai art#fuck ai writing#fuck ai
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seeing the palworld controversy from the sidelines is insane bc the ai claims dont seem to hold water and it truly does not matter that its a pokemon ripoff because big companies feelings dont matter AND PEOPLE JUST FAIL TO MENTION THAT THERES A SLAVERY MECHANIC WHERE YOU CAN HAVE HUMAN SLAVES? WHY IS THAT NOT WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT
#yall maybe the fact that its a ripoff doesnt matter when YOU CAN HAVE SLAVES IN IT#i had to look up specifically 'palworld controversy slavery' bc just 'palworld controversy' got me ppl talking abt the ai and plagiarism#and what i found wasnt even any articles like there are for the ai controversy#but people on reddit being racist about it. good lord#mask mews#palworld#slavery
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#facial recognition#facial recognition software#boycott israel#boycott google#google software is being used to help target and kill Palestinians#google#apartheid#save palestine#ethnic cleansing#israel is an apartheid state#seek truth#free palestine 🇵🇸#genocide#illegal occupation#israel is committing genocide#israeli war crimes#project nimbus#google photos#israeli hit list#israeli war criminals#israel is a terrorist state#surveillance state#mass surveillance#even AI is racist with facial recognition systems being notoriously unrealiable for people with darker skin tones#no tech for apartheid#human rights violations#conflict sensitive human rights due diligence#seems like that can be bypassed if the money is good enough#dystopian nightmare
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#anti ai#anti ai art#racism tw#racism mention#ai art is ableist#ai art is racist#ableism tw#ableism mention#anti ai “art”#video#tiktok#informative#social
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She slapped THE SHIT outta him! 👋🏿 🥴
#racism#anti blackness#misogynoir#racists#black women#black girls#disney#pixar#racist disney ai posters#black woman#slap#mikayla#non blacks#hispanics#instagram#video#sbrown82
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I haven't used Google in years, except for maps and street view, which it's still better than everyone else for. But other than finding directions, I've no intention of ever using it again.
A relatively easy thing for Elon to do would be to buy up DuckDuckGo - which is presently the best search engine out there but used far, far, far less than Google - and then overnight incorporate it into X as well as remaining a standalone website. Would require very little effort and he'd probably be able to get it for comparatively very little money. Plus, he'd be able to give it a less ridiculous name.
If he is seeking to create a search engine, though, it is possible he'll want to do it from the ground up, so as to be sure it does not have the implicit bias and shady backroom stuff coded into it needing weeding out like at Twitter, and DDG definitely has more bias in its results these days than it used to.
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I feel like the ai art convo can be really nuanced, but one thing I don't like (& this is more of the fault of the people using it rather than the extistence or concept of ai art itself) is how people have been using ai prompts to represent peoples & cultures in videos (& this is really popular on tiktok) or for posts & like half the time it feels like people almost believe the ai art prompt result is like, real or appropriate to use or reliable.
Like why use ai images to represent Native Americans when you could literally just use photos of Native Americans, or art by Native Americans?
#some of these prompt results also really still end up looking kinda racist & stereotyped & inaccurate#& again the ai doesnt think so its not necessarily the ai itself but its the programming & the people doing the prompt#& just kinda accepting that as like 'reliable'#& I saw 'art' of a 'Native American girl' on here & it looked like a white insta girl with feathers in her hair & red facepaint
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So, you really are doubling down on this ASP thing aren't you, Boston Dumb Fuck (some final thoughts for a shameful day; for you, in case you are that oblivious now that you have capitulated to the dark side).
(Oh, and for any of his minions out there trolling, I fully entreat you to bubble this up to your stubborn, anxious overlord because he could do some real damage to the world, not just himself)
The negative, and 100 percent correct, comments for the Antisemitism in Schools discussion wasn't enough for you? Try to bury it all you want- the internet (and screenshots) are forever and people know. Not even when Secretary Cardona lamented the normalization of hating Jews, while you were awkwardly flaunting your poison band, tying you to the Nazi wifey, thus making you a perpetrator of this very normalization, did you not get the hint you are not welcomed in this space?
You know you can't have it both ways, right? You can't be the Political Avenger and also be "married" to a racist, antisemetic, fat-shaming, arrogant, selfish xenophob. Your balls aren't nearly strong enough to stratle that fence! Is this so much of a vanity project you are willing to forgo your "egoic narrative", wasting important people's precious time, who are trying to keep the ship we call democracy from sinking, while you look for a pat on the back for rearranging the deck chairs. You know, for someone who is very conscious of odors, you reek of rich white male Privlege. I can smell it through the Bluetooth connection and God does it stink! Didn't know being tone deaf also made you nose blind 🤷♀️.
Are you really going to tackle the big problems that young voters care, or should care, about head on? Are young voters even going to pay attention to what you have to offer? And who are you going to get to speak to your baby website, run by dilatants and clout chasers? I am sure you could get some blowhards like Rafael "Ted" Cruz, Matt "the Frat" Gaetz, and your old friend "Uncle" Tim Scott, but anyone with anything worth speaking to is not going to want to degrade themselves for liars like you. By the way, you may want to get used to the feeling, BDF, because if you don't make some MAJOR changes to your life soon, I sense this is how your dating life will be, too, once the divorce is finalized.
I hope your mama is still proud, because most everyone else is ashamed or embarrassed for you. You don't need to use the website as your personal barometer to tell you that.
PS- Don't make some corny joke tomorrow with the high schoolers about you being old. This isn't about you, and they weren't the ones who decided to "marry" someone 16 years their junior, who looks 26 years their junior and is sucking the life and soul out of you, making you look like you have aged about 10 years since the two kinda, sorta ceremonies. People Magazine's Most Pathetic Man of the Year! Yes, teach the young people how to make good decisions for their future, jackass!
#you are the company you keep#liars suck!#i don't like hypocrites#i hate manipulation#ai in human form#Stop trying to make ASP happen!#check your privlege#coward#boston antisemite#boston racist#boston fatshamer#do better#get some help#who are you#is this who you want to be?#like god spilled a person#Really making it hard to defend you!
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just learned about the people posting '19th century paintings' by a supposed "emile corsi", which is actually just ai art misleadingly and purposefully being represented as actual historical pieces, and i do think this is an issue for art history and culture that people are doing this (and that more people are being tricked into reposting these pieces under the belief theyre legitimate historical ones, furthering the lie).
however after looking it up a bit im finding that the only issue people have with this is that misrepresentation of art history. and id like us to also consider that many of these pieces are in the 19th-century orientalist style, in which white european artists fictionalized, fetishized and otherized swana people. and the use of ai art to create new pieces of a historical racist style (which still today colors the way swana people and our history are perceived in the west) should be as big a concern as the issue of fooling people into thinking an artist who didnt exist actually did. probably more!
(preemptive disclaimer that im not "anti-ai" and dont care about having that argument. post is about a racist thing. does not need derailing.)
#97#emile corsi#i dont want to have any arguments about whether or not orientalist historical art is racist btw i will block you.#truth be told? there are orientalist pieces i like. theres one orientalist painting that is one of my favorites.#there does come nuance sometimes when your representation in art you have access to is so tied to your fetishization and othering.#(not just in historical orientalism - see also journalistic photography of swana people etc still using the same tropes)#i know this. i dont think its evil to like some orientalist pieces. we still must be aware that the art movement is inherently racist.#and there is a difference between enjoying some orientalist pieces by long dead artists with an awareness of the issues surrounding them#versus creating new orientalist pieces today and relying on biased racist ai models to do so!
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Booo character ai boooooo
Booo chat box ai booooooo
BOOOO AI BOOOOOOOOO
#cmon guys you know you’re more creative than that#like that is so embarrassing#what you gonna have AI make your fanart and write your fics?#I also heard that someone created a racist/homophobic/transphobic Hobie Brown character ai#like I don’t even have to say anything you’re so close to the point#couldn’t torture using AI characters out of me and y’all are posting that on the internet FOR FREE?!#BOOO AI
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Context: Francis DuBois, the Captain of Dar Komety (our starship) has some interesting music tastes (read: almost exclusively eerie ambient music that he plays on speakers during his watch)
@mapo-leon, @dear-nyu, and @kurakuh3do can attest to that
#as a side note Erika was unsuccessful in buying music because an android accused her of being racist towards AI#And the funniest part was that the only counterargument Erika could've had was 'some of my best friends are androids'#fortunately the Convenient Robot Friend and its questionable father figure (?) came to the rescue just in time#the kinda shit that happens in our Mothership campaign#mothership rpg
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