Stephen Downes

This article points to how "current methods to mitigate these effects fail to prevent images perpetuating racist, misogynist and otherwise problematic stereotypes" produced by a Stable Diffusion AI. "œI think it'™s a data problem, it's a model problem, but it's also like a human problem that people are going in the direction of 'more data, bigger models, faster, faster, faster,' Hugging Face'™s Luccioni told Gizmodo." Or as a speaker at the conference said today, "AI is 98% human." In an email Alan Levine looked at the depictions of teachers. "Notice the teacher tropes, either bookshelves or chalkboards." And compared to DALL-e: "Oh my. DALL-E only places teachers in front of chalkboards! But worse, for intellectual (left) the results are weighted to balding white males in glasses." Here's the project page.