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This Week in AI: Addressing racism in AI image generators
In this edition of TC's semiregular newsletter, This Week in AI, we talk racial biases and AI-powered image generators.
Told to depict “a Roman legion,” for instance, Gemini would show an anachronistic, cartoonish group of racially diverse foot soldiers while rendering “Zulu warriors” as Black. In her best-selling book “White Fragility,” anti-racist educator Robin DiAngelo writes about how the erasure of race — “color blindness,” by another phrase — contributes to systemic racial power imbalances rather than mitigating or alleviating them. Were AI vendors to address their models’ shortcomings head on, in humble and transparent language, it’d go a lot further than haphazard attempts at “fixing” what’s essentially unfixable bias.
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