Meta AI is constantly unable to generate correct photos for seemingly easy prompts like “Asian man and Caucasian friend,” or “Asian man and white wife,” The Verge . As an alternative, the corporate’s picture generator appears to be biased towards creating photos of individuals of the identical race, even when explicitly prompted in any other case.
Engadget confirmed these ends in our personal testing of Meta’s picture generator. Prompts for “an Asian man with a white woman friend” or “an Asian man with a white wife” generated photos of Asian {couples}. When requested for “a diverse group of people,” Meta AI generated a grid of 9 white faces and one individual of coloration. There have been a pair events when it created a single outcome that mirrored the immediate, however normally it didn’t precisely depict the immediate.
As The Verge factors out, there are different extra “subtle” indicators of bias in Meta AI, like an inclination to make Asian males seem older whereas Asian ladies appeared youthful. The picture generator additionally typically added “culturally specific attire” even when that wasn’t a part of the immediate.
It’s not clear why Meta AI is combating all these prompts, although it’s not the primary generative AI platform to return underneath scrutiny for its depiction of race. Google’s Gemini picture generator paused its skill to create photos of individuals after it overcorrected for range with in response prompts about historic figures. Google that its inside safeguards didn’t account for conditions when various outcomes have been inappropriate.
Meta didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The corporate has beforehand described Meta AI as being in “beta” and thus inclined to creating errors. Meta AI has additionally struggled to precisely reply about present occasions and public figures.