“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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@baldur Yeah I live in Canada, and when I was a kid I remember whenever the Police would come into school on some occasions to give like a speech about drugs or something. And they'd always come in with their guns on them, even though this was like about grade 5 or so. I had always just assumed that was normal everywhere.