Comment on Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The fact less people of that group actually wear it than do is significant when you want an average sample. When categorizing a collection of images then, naturally, the traditional garments of a group is associated more with that group than than any other group: 1/6 is bigger than any other race combined.

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• Womble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  so if there was a country where 1 in 6 people had blue skin you would consider that statistically insignificant because 5 out of 6 didn’t?

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For a caricature of the population? Yes, that’s not what the algorithm should be optimising for.

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    • SavedKriss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The algorithm is optimizing for results that are rated as precise, not just frequent.

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