Different Dimension Me - Comment #6,076,712

Why do I have a feeling that some of these are edited?

you can try it yourself.

There's kinda a record of many different facial recognition softwares having a racial bias. If companies in the US that are mocked for being "woke" like Google can have issues it is pretty likely companies in less ethnically diverse places have them as well.

This isn't surprising to anyone that understands Machine learning algorithms to a degree. There's a misconception that AI is super intelligent and logical, when in reality it's as stupid as any computer, it can just process huge amounts of data for pattern matching on a large scale. If it lacks data, or is given crap data "which is like, 95% of data" you get shit like this.

It's unavoidable with these kinds of programs; garbage in, garbage out.

It seems tencent isn’t aware of the beauty that is Avdol

Interesting how it seems to turn text into some type of alien language.

Finally, my kind of app.

Was this intentional this time?

The algorithm changes every man into a generic bishounen. Keyword being "generic".
Generic bishounen are white, therefore every man parsed through this app will be parsed as white.

Technical side: AI are trained on existing images/patterns, and since black/tan bishounen drawn by actual artists are only about 0.01% of the total whole, the AI had never trained to draw them, and the skin tone of the source has no neural connections to any of the appropriate categories.

This is why introducing bias modifiers and conditional categorization (make it learn to recognize separate traits and tell it what to do with them) is important in AI learning algorithms.

Avdol is of Arab ethnicity (he came from Cairo's Islamic district), not African. His skin color is slightly paler but not as pale as the native Egyptians. Does make me wonder what would've happened if pictures of Arabs or Egyptians was used.

you're gonna shit bricks once you find out this is a Chinese app

"If companies in the US that are mocked for being "woke" like Google can have issues"

Like when Disney shot the live-action Mulan in front of a Uyghur concentration camp and the lead actress, Crystal Liu/Liu Yifei supported the Hong Kong police, cut ties with Adidas after they pulled out of China because of concerns regarding aforementioned concentration camps and yet still somehow managed to also piss off the Chinese nationalists by identifying as "Asian" instead of Chinese?

Wha… what does any of that have to do with racial bias in Artificial Intelligence?

What does racial bias in AI have to do with racists intentionally programming AI to be racist?

99% of the pics used to train are white people, so not surprising.
if japanese artists were drawing more tanned people, this would not happen.

novelAI gives better results for black people.