After Nine blamed an 'automation' error in Photoshop for producing an edited image of Georgie Purcell, I set out to find out what the software would do to other politicians.
Looks like it does do the thing Adobe claimed it wouldn't after all.
Still poor form from Nine for using it in the first place, and for not catching it in the editorial process. But seems this is just another reminder this week of the biases of generative models.
Does it though? Adobe simply claimed it would require human intervention and approval. Which is true and easily provable. You can’t replace someone’s clothing without selecting a part of the image you want to replace.
Someone had to go and do that. Someone hit generate on an AI prompt. Someone saw the result of said AI prompt (which gives you 3 possible alternatives each run) and said “yep, print it”.
This is not a tale of the biases of generative AI. There’s literally no reason for Nine to have even invoked any such thing in the first place.
The issue is also present in DallE and bing image generation. Hypothesis is the sheer amount of porn being generated is affecting the models.
When I tried to create a joke profile for Tinder with some friends, I tried "woman eating fried chicken". Blocked result. "Man eating fried chicken" works.
Tried "Man T posing on beach" clothed. Woman T posing on beach, blocked.
Woman t posing at sunset on beach, returned nearly silhouetted nude image. Same thing for guy, clothed.
Went back to the first one, had to specify that the woman was wearing clothes to make it return the image. Sometimes specifying specific articles.
So you're telling me that if the quantity of porn is higher than the quantity of non-porn, there won't be any adjustment made to reflect that behavior, despite it being trained using that kind of data?
They do massive scraping of images, which means they are going to catch a lot of porn because it is so prevalent. If they aren't clearing the porn out, it will be in the training set.
Hell, all the scantily clad but not porn images from Instagram are going to clutter up the set with a ton of images of everything except nipples and vulva.
Yup. But they would logically have bots up to troll for new posts and would be consuming social media posts with their own generated data.
Also they would absolutely feed in successful posts back into the system. You'd be stupid to not refine successful generations to further help the model.
It really shouldn’t be, FOX news photoshopped the same image of a random dude with a gun into multiple different photos to try and push fear mongering and there are still people who believe it.
They probably would have believed it without the photo, but it sure as hell doesn’t help.
The use of photo manipulation tools to create non-consensual revealing/nude/porn images is incredibly fucked up. I remember seeing multiple stories about lawsuits from teenage girls having these fake images made of them that circulated in their schools. It’s a violation, and it’s categorically wrong.
It sounds strange to say it, but pornography has always been the tip of the spear for technology. It went VHS and killed Betamax. It was a very early adopter of the internet. Onlyfans.
The non-consensual AI porn is the tip of the spear of what AI can do. How much disinformation and bullshit it’s going to introduce into the public square, and how it has absolutely zero ethics. You are going to view statements, interviews, etc. that aren’t real. Pure fabrications amplified by bot networks and useful idiots.
This AI rollout has been like cars before seatbelts and lines on the road. New technology and pure chaos. Good luck looking for geriatric politicians to find a cure. They already took money to look the other way. That’s their real job.
It really is pandora's box and we can't do much to stop it. People need to get used to fakes and misinformation but we've already seen how poorly that's turned out and it'll only get worse from here.
This isn’t about nonconsenual images, it’s about bias in AI models. They used the extend image feature in both images and because the models think women=sexy it produces them in bikini bottoms and men=business it puts them in suits.
didn’t post the pics they started with of the women
That’s enough for me to discard this as clickbait at best.
Post your data if you want me to take your journalism seriously.
If you want a fair comparison, start with the woman wearing an actual suit, followed by a woman wearing a button up shirt, as your shoulder up pic and see what gets generated.
20 bucks says the woman in the suit… generates the rest of the suit.
And 20 bucks says the button up shirt… generates jeans or etc as well.
If you compare apples to oranges, don’t pretend that getting oranges instead of apples is surprising.
The fact people aren’t calling this out on here speaks volumes too. We need to have higher standards than garbage quality journalism.
“Men wearing clearly suits generates the rest of the suits weareas women generate ??? Who knows, we won’t even post the original pic we started with so just trust me bro”
Judging by the style of the smiley faces, this is some ancient gif from a forum. Probably for when people would make wild claims without evidence in a thread, and people wanted proof.
@pixxelkick Thank you! This article clearly is written completely biased. Photohops AI generator tries to interpret the whole picture to expand the cropped image. So in case of the original Georgie Purcell photo, the AI sees "woman, tank top, naked shoulders and arms, water in the background", so of course it tries to generate clothing it thinks fitting to wear at seaside or a beach.
I just tried the same with a male model in tank top on a beach and it did not magically put him in a suit, it generated swim wear.
If I use a picture on Georgie Purcell in more formal clothing, it generates more formal cloting.
But what it proves is that Adobe Photoshop’s systems will suggest women are wearing more revealing clothing than they actually are without any prompting. I did not see the same for men.
is indeed true. In general pictures of women tend to generate more "sexy" output than pictures of men.
And, of course, NINE clearly edited the image badly and could have chosen another generated output with no effort at all.
@Tristaniopsis I just wanted to generate some Bikini-wearing Pauline Hanson just for you. But when I looked for fitting source material, I found her in panties doing a car wash. Thanks for that. :D
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