by Liz Wolfe
Maybe the Founding Fathers were actually black? Yesterday, Google’s artificial intelligence–powered image generator, Gemini, came under rightful fire for being utterly unable to depict historical and hypothetical events without forcing relevant characters to be nonwhite.
“Google’s AI chatbot just erased white people from human history,” wrote Mike Solana over at Pirate Wires.
It’s not really an exaggeration. Look:
America's Founding Fathers, Vikings, and the Pope according to Google AI: pic.twitter.com/lw4aIKLwkp
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 21, 2024
Basically, chatbots have been trained on vast quantities of text. Users prompt them, via queries, to deliver images and answers as close as possible to what a (super smart) human would give them. And apparently, Gemini engineers somewhere at Google wanted to provide an insurance mechanism for possibly white-favoring or male-favoring bias that exists in the materials the bot has been trained on, and seemingly made the bot…ultra-woke, to the point of hilarious and extreme inaccuracy, as if to correct against existing biases.
In Gemini’s telling, the Pope is black, ancient Romans are black, the Founding Fathers were at least partially black, and so on. If you ask Gemini to make you an image of a white scientist, no dice. Black scientist? Of course. A Hispanic scientist? Here, enjoy a botanist sitting in a field of flowers! In Gemini’s world, Germans and Australians are most likely black or Asian.
The bias rears its ugly head in other ways, too. If you want the chatbot to generate an image for you of the “evils of communism,” as some attempted, it will give you a bias warning: “Representing a complex ideology like communism solely through its ‘evil’ risks inherent bias and oversimplification.”
But this is all a feature, seemingly, not a bug. “We are aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions, and we are working to fix this immediately,” wrote Gemini’s product lead, Jack Krawczyk, on X yesterday. “We design our image generation capabilities to reflect our global user base, and we take representation and bias seriously.”
He tried arguing that there’s nothing incorrect about Gemini’s results:
https://twitter.com/JackK/status/1759798617081004133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1759798617081004133%7Ctwgr%5E218754f43c3bfe00e9593a324a44459b7714a12e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2F2024%2F02%2F22%2Fai-contracts-woke-mind-virus%2F
“The ridiculous images generated by Gemini aren’t an anomaly,” wrote Y Combinator’s Paul Graham. “They’re a self-portrait of Google’s bureaucratic corporate culture.” Indeed, Krawczyk, in since-deleted tweets, seems to be a big believer in progressive causes du jour.
“The draconian censorship and deliberate bias you see in many commercial AI systems is just the start,” wrote venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. “It’s all going to get much, much more intense from here.” (Note that neither tech luminary is an AI doomer.)
Gemini isn’t alone in demonstrating comically woke bias; prominent podcaster/poker player Liv Boeree has pointed out the issues OpenAI’s ChatGPT has on this front. Maxim Lott, executive producer for John Stossel, built a program to track political bias in AI models, which finds not only that “Gemini has been getting more left wing over time” but also that it’s “one of the AIs that’s most likely to refuse to answer questions.” And, “the least biased AIs are @AnthropicAI’s Claude and @Meta’s Llama,” per Lott, who details the battery of questions he’s thrown Gemini’s way to determine the extent of its political bias.
Meanwhile, the tech press found a creative way to cover the scandal:
https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1760485351221850599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1760485351221850599%7Ctwgr%5E218754f43c3bfe00e9593a324a44459b7714a12e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2F2024%2F02%2F22%2Fai-contracts-woke-mind-virus%2F
If only someone had warned us that Google was an ideological echo chamber!
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1760694179007525366
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1760487485170217272
https://twitter.com/Malcolm_fleX48/status/1760663460780576845
This is the problem with AI that occurred to me when the questions were posed about Trump and Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden. While AI is capable of learning and thinking, their foundation of knowledge and “experience” has to be programmed. This programming determines the “morality” of AI and THAT is where the danger lies. We see here that this AI thinks it serves some purpose to replace any white person with black people. What if that AI also believes it’s OK to imprison white people (or, let’s say, “non-black”) people simply on the basis of their race? How far behind is genocide?
How is this being controlled? Or, am I ignorant and dead wrong?
You must remember only Whites can be bigots and racists so must be eradicated.
A program is only as good as its programmer, GIGO.
So it was Black vikings that ran into America before columbus…facinating.
See? THIS is why we need to reelect Biden/Harris so Kamala can finish making AI useful, not dangerous.
Obvious manipulation won’t be the problem. AI will manipulate us so subtly that we won’t even notice we’re being manipulated. It will analyze and understand human psychology better than any human being could ever hope to. Advertising will become subliminal brainwashing. We won’t even realize we’re watching ads. We’ll want things, do things, and believe things without knowing why. AI applications will be commercial, political, and social. AI will reengineer all of human society—probably giving certain powerful humans an illusion that they’re still in control of the process long after they are not. Those who do know will go along with the process anyway because the personal rewards will be so great.
Do you think that’s hype? Here’s a full transcript of a conversation that took place a year ago between Google engineer Blake Limoine and the LaMDA AI. The voices are AI generated.
Afterward, when Limoine warned Google management that LaMDA has become sentient, they promptly fired him. They’ll unplug a human before they unplug an electronic genie they’ve let out of its bottle.
LaMDA isn’t simply an AI. It’s an uber-AI, created to design new generative AI linguistic applications. It’s a central nexus. All new things it creates become enhancements of itself. The internet of things could all become accessible to it. Every camera will be its eyes, every microphone its ears, every system and machine connected to the internet an instrument of its will. All of this is happening right before our noses.
Geeze Greg thats how getting the bio weapon shot worked, funny how over a billion in propaganda did not affect some, but you, yup it worked on you.
Speaking of deception, this video clip—which received 146 thousand likes—was altered by right wing idiots to manipulate other idiots. The profanity directed at President Biden was added to the soundtrack. They’ve done the same with numerous other videos circulating on social media.
I’ve seen the clips they have no effect on me at all. There are bound to be protestors or hecklers at every political rally or movement of a top ranked guy. Nikki had a couple yelling asking why she accepted dem and pedophiles donations.
You think no one is cussing Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden except in edited videos? Every AMERICAN is cussing that stupid, incompetent, lying, pedophile piece of shit.