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Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men
Meta's AI chatbot, which, for some reason, really wants to add turbans to any image of an Indian man — showing a peculiar bias.
We tried prompts with different professions and settings, including an architect, a politician, a badminton player, an archer, a writer, a painter, a doctor, a teacher, a balloon seller, and a sculptor. For instance, it constantly generated an image of an old-school Indian house with vibrant colors, wooden columns, and styled roofs. In response to questions TechCrunch sent to Meta about training data an biases, the company said it is working on making its generative AI tech better, but didn’t provide much detail about the process.
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