Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months ago

Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

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Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 7 months ago

Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men | TechCrunch

Meta's AI chatbot, which, for some reason, really wants to add turbans to any image of an Indian man — showing a peculiar bias.

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18•7 months ago

There are a lot of men in India who wear a turban, but the ratio is not nearly as high as Meta AI’s tool would suggest. In India’s capital, Delhi, you would see one in 15 men wearing a turban at most.

Probably because most Sikhs are from the Punjab region?

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