Baldur BjarnasonOct 20, 2024

“AI” models are suffused with US values and, occasionally, those are quite shocking to us non-Americans

An Icelandic police force used a generated image to promote a public notice

People were absolutely horrified

Why?

Because the cop in the image had a gun, in a holster, AROUND CHILDREN 😱

The uniform was also not accurate for an Icelandic cop but what people found obscene was the idea that anybody would carry a gun around children, even holstered

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2024-10-20-logreglan-a-sudurnesjum-aetlar-ad-haetta-ad-nota-gervigreindarmyndir-af-logregluthjonum-425104

Lögreglan á Suðurnesjum ætlar að hætta að nota gervigreindarmyndir af lögregluþjónum - RÚV.is

Lögreglan á Suðurnesjum ætlar að hætta að nota gervigreindarmyndir af lögregluþjónum á Facebook-síðu sinni. Embættið birti gervigreindarmynd af lögregluþjóni, sem virðist vera vopnaður, umkringdum börnum.

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Show threadraphaelOct 20, 2024

@baldur just recently, an article went around on how genAI will easily show you people of X culture, taking a selfie (native americans, yuan dynasty chinese, aztec warriors, neanderthals, you name it) – except they all have that grotesque rictus toothy smile they use in the US.

i found that to be such a good example: on the surface, it purports to show historic (or prehistoric) people in a lively manner, not like exhibits. which would be good! but also, it makes painfully evident that it will impose a highly regional, very present-day idea of ‘liveliness’ upon it.

Show threadBaldur BjarnasonOct 20, 2024
@gekitsu Yeah, I remember that article. It was good.
Show threadraphaelOct 20, 2024
@baldur speaking of, you wouldn’t happen to have its URL present? because a friend asked me about it recently, and i couldn’t find it in my RSS reader nor was it apparent in the last days’ worth of my masto TL.
Show threadBaldur Bjarnason
@gekitsu Was it this one? https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf
AI and the American Smile

How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression.

Medium
Oct 20, 2024 at 1:14pmWeb
Show threadraphaelOct 20, 2024
@baldur oooh holy shit, it was! thank you! (for some reason, i thought it was on some popular science website, not medium. that could’ve severely hampered my searching)