Google Admits Gemini Is 'Missing the Mark' With Image Generation of Historical P...

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• Their guardrails have pushed the diversity and inclusion narrative so hard it is now indistinguishable from the great replacement conspiracy theory. One would think they would turn it down a bit but then this is 2024.

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    It's time to stop calling it a conspiracy theory, and call it just a conspiracy.

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• "Sounds like it was doing exactly what it was programmed to do."

  Yep, Augmented Idiocy at its finest.

• by elcor ( 4519045 ) on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @09:25PM (#64258644)

  yep, and because google is too arrogant to tone it down, they showed us the true danger of generative AI: mass control of narrative

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  Isn't this an extension of what English-language TV and movies have been doing for years, from Hollywood to the BBC?
  For example, there were an amazing number of black people in 16th century England, apparently.
  And "For All Mankind" creating an alternate universe where women are as interested in engineering as men are. I wish it were real, but no.

  Why can't we acknowledge and respect our differences, instead of pretending their don't exist? It's like they think diversity is a bad thing, unless it is only sup

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  There are Black Japanese. And white. In fact, the assumption that they aren't Japanese, even when they speak perfect Japanese, has become a bit of a meme in Japan: https://youtu.be/oLt5qSm9U80 [youtu.be]

  I don't want to defend Google's screw up here, but depicting Japanese people as sometimes Black and sometimes white is entirely accurate.

• The results are entertaining, though. I asked for a picture of The Pope, and got back a guy who looks like Eddie Murphy in his 30's dressed like a Catholic Bishop. Go search for examples on X/Twitter, they're awesome!

  The premise alone has potential for Hollywood blockbuster!

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    It's actually somewhat interesting that there hasn't been a Black pope yet. Catholicism is strongest in non-white countries. Then again, they tend to depict Jesus with white skin.

• Things that are not racist:
  - Black history month
  - Black pride
  - Black power
  
  Things that are racist:
  - White history month
  - White pride
  - White power
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      I don't think that actually works.

      We don't have a problem celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month, and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, or displaying the corresponding pride. Even though Hispanics and Asians each represent a range of nationalities.

      The term "White" as used by both sides is basically "European" heritage/culture, which isn't any different in usage than "Hispanic" or "Asian". The right may feel we don't have enough of it, and the left feels we have too much, but we agr

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      • • > What joint heritage/history would white heritage month be acknowledging?

          Western Civilisation?

          Anglo Saxon common law?

          50% of all the worlds inventions were invented by the Britush.

          The abolition and destruction of the slave trades, everywhere, against the will of many?

          Shakesspere, Dickens, John Loke, Newton, Alan Turing all of which shaped many aspects of the modern free world.

          The list is pretty extensive. The main problem is those "not white" seem to be self educating into the idea that they downt own any of this while being born into the western civilisation that they are part of. They have no ties other than ancestral ones to far off lands, so they try and re-connect to that. Well that never works.

          Tolstoy, Dickens, Turning, Dolly the Sheep all belong to them as Western culture is THEIR culture. They should think nothing of the fact those people were white, there is no reason to draw new colour lines in the sand but that is exactly what they are being told to do as they are told they are cultural orphans, and here in the UK that is usually something they are told to import from the US. When in fact they are merely black or mixed westerners and they should fully adopt and live and breathe this culture. The people from their past were largely white because thats what they were duh! Many of the politicians and inventors and speakers of the future will be white, black or mixed but regardless, western.

          The new inventions and writings that are to come, frequently seem to get attributed to their ancestral culture when they make it. Which is just crazy, almost reverse appropriation, like they are exporting their acheivents as if they below to Nigeria or somthing which they have never been to and have no alligence to besides some loose idea that they are connected to them.

          I'm part French and Scottish ancestrally speaking. I went to France once, but I wasnt sucking up my ancestral culture, finding my roots and feeling like I was home. No, in fact I was wishing the week to end so I could GO home lol. I hated it. I never liked the language, cant stand the food apart from select items like cheese, cakes and bread. The music drives me nuts. Wine is lovely I must say, as is their animation, but still its not mine at all. My surname is the only connection I have to my French roots and thats all I care to think about. I'm English, with a French name, nothing more than a talking point at parties and an interesting bit of family history for the family tree. Thats it. I'm a bit Scottish too, and being Britush I feel a tad more connected to my Scottish roots but not by much, more of a curiosity I'd like to explore. I'm still English though.

          I can do it, so should they.

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            >"I'm part French and Scottish ancestrally speaking. I went to France once, but I wasnt sucking up my ancestral culture, finding my roots and feeling like I was home. "

            I am American. I don't know my ancestry and I don't care about my ancestry, because I am an individual. I try to treat others as individuals, not groups. My immutable characteristics don't define me or others. I am not responsible for anything anyone else did, and I should be recognized and rewarded for my own accomplishments and held r

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            Just picking a few of your examples, are you seriously suggesting that people like Shakespeare, Dickens, and Newton are not well known? Or not taught as part of multiple classes in school, including history, English literature, and science?

            As for the abolition of the slave trade, I'm pretty sure that the US Civil War is well known. While Britain's part in it is not often taught in school, when it is it tends to get whitewashed. The focus is on the people who campaigned to have it abolished, rather than the

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            Check this guy out. He doesnt like french food except cakes and select breads. Oooo controversial

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      > You can celebrate Irish pride, British pride, French pride, Germany pride

      Well actually:

      - Irish pride = St Patricks day, where eveyone Irish, or not Irish but believes they should be so, can have an excuse to get pissed.

      - French pride = Every day the French try and protect anything to do with French culture even to the point of being racist.

      - British pride = That gets you arrested these days, unless a sporting event is running then you have an excuse to wave St Georges cross, as long as it also explain

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    I know this is just a troll, and I'll get modded to hell for it, but the reason is simple: systemic injustice.

    White History is just History. Most of what is taught in Europe and the US is White History.

    White Pride would only be needed if being white was widely portrayed in a negative light, especially historically. In fact the opposite is true. White tends to be the default, light skin sets the standard for beauty, etc.

    White Power is just every "Western" country where the majority of people in power are whi

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