I'm not going to stop you if you want to have a good laugh at Google's Gemini fiasco. It's both embarrassing and funny that it proved almost entirely unwilling to create images of white people, even where appropriate. A search for "America's founding fathers" returned a George Washington who looked like Barack Obama in the middle of a wig party (not to be confused with the Whig Party.)
But I have to ask, what even is the purpose of this thing? Assuming they get the bugs out, what then? An AI-generated image isn't informative in the same way a photograph is, because it doesn't focus on an object outside of itself. It's not in and of itself art, although an avant-garde artist could conceivably use it in a larger piece.
If this is going to be treated as a big deal, it sounds like an admission that flesh-and-blood human beings are giving up on creating anything themselves.
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I don't blame you for not actually having a picture at the top of this post. Goodness knows we've had opportunity enough to laugh and point. I think my favorite was the Vikings, but there were so many and then so many more memes it was hard to choose. (haha, wig party)..
It's woke AI so I guess this is what you get. I don't know if there is a point other than sowing more confusion and division in order to stop any organized complaints. I'm not sure art has anything to do with the results we see, at least not traditional art. From what I've been seeing people on social media are already presenting themselves as unreal beings. It's almost like browsing Hallowe'en costumes.
A suitably relevant quote from 1984:
“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.”
Well, I figured that you and anybody else reading this would have already seen examples from the AI. And if I'm going to have illustrations on my blog I prefer them to be pictures that interest me. As for the Vikings, maybe Google Gemini got turned around and thought it was being asked about the Minnesota Vikings.
It seems to have come from a dysfunctional process. Engineers and consultants get together and try to outdo each other in radicalism, not registering how insane the results will appear to outsiders. And eventually outsiders see it and, yes, find it quite insane. Many people do, in one way or another, pick their identities off of lists on the internet, and it tends not to make any sense outside of the internet.
Always relevant, it seems.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
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