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Dr Abeba Birhane

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"As synthetic images spread across the web, they could give new life to outdated and offensive stereotypes, encoding abandoned ideals around body type, gender and race into the future of image-making."

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Tyler's avatar Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social
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The problem being that, while forced to pretend otherwise for PR reasons, the people who build these models view that as a feature and not a bug. ('Objectively determined prejudice' is one of the things they're most excited about in this tech)

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Dr Abeba Birhane 's avatar Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social
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"Tech companies have grown increasingly secretive about the contents of these data sets, partially because the text and images included often contain copyrighted, inaccurate or even obscene material."

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