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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FlakesBongler@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

ComradeSharkfucker, because I love you, I went and found these AI images from the brief period when Bing hardcoded "Ethnically Ambiguous" into its prompt field

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have genuinely checked that comment 2 times for an update since you posted it. I am so touched 🥺

Thank you comrade, I needed to see these lmao

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago

Of course, I just got a little busy and then my partner was like "You're working too hard, let's get you something nice" and then we went and got strawberry lemonade sorbet from the nice ice cream shop

Then I realized how much time had passed and then I felt bad, so I found them and now i'm laying in bed curled up with my stuffed Trubbish and I may have also taken an edible or two

So in conclusion, I am glad you're happy

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago

Hell yeah, that sounds like a wonderful day. I'm laying on the couch with my partner watching avatar and I am about to go smoke lol. Enjoy cuddles with your trubbish ❤️

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

The lady growing out of the sidetable scares me

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah

I remember when nearly every genAI image was somewhat terrifying

Especially those ones where it would put eyeballs everywhere

[-] Aradino@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

The baby in the bottom right is horrifying

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

That Simpsons one is flat out racist.

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's right, I'm ethnically anbigrious shrux

[-] unaware@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

shrux I love our emojis

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago
[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If it's hard coded in why does it do the text but not even spell it right but it "misspells" it in a consistent way

[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

Generative AI stuff doesn't have any concept of what a word is. It's just trying to jam stuff together that looks vaguely like what its weird black box algorithm is telling it the result of the prompt should look like. And it's not consistent at all lol, these pictures have ethnically anbigrious, ethinically ambigaus, ethnically ambigauus, etthnicicllly anbiguauu, and ethnniclly ambigaus

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

They trained the early models on whatever images they found on the internet. People noticed that "doctor" made a white dude and "basketball player" made a black dude, and made a stink about the racism in this*. Microsoft went into cover-my-ass mode and put in a simple AI model that checks for if the prompt sounds like it's about people, and if it does, inserting "ethnically ambiguous" into the prompt before passing it to the image model**. The image models were shit, so they'd leak random parts of their prompt into any text on screen all the time.

* note that this wasn't some intentional racist thing, it's just a model thoughtlessly replicating the racism in its training data, after being made by thoughtless people who didn't foresee this problem (ie: exactly how racism usually works)

** IIRC, google's AI did the same thing, but instead of always adding "ethnically ambiguous", it had some percent chance of adding a random racial descriptor. So you'd ask for George Washington and get a 10% chance it made him black

[-] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 days ago

Basically it's because it's fucked up and stupid and it's doing things in a fucked up and stupid way

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Literally me fr fr

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

i'm not an expert with this stuff i'm afraid

Just telling you what I heard when it first happened

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

Gen'AI' used to be funny. Bad, but funny

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Now it's just women with creases and exploding dogs

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago
[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Please add a content warning for racism to this post. Thanks.

Not going to remove it since it's already falling off the front page and I know you're asleep, but please be more mindful in the future. Even mockery of racism can unintentionally promote real racism if we aren't vigilant.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Yup, sorry about that

Will be better about tagging things with CW's

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Ethnically babbroom

this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
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