The fact that Google is traditionally conservative
How long time span is covered here? Google has been progressive for a long time in my opinion. Does nobody remember the paper “Googles Ideological Echo Chamber” which became a controversy in 2017 for instance? (I misunderstood the statement, see reply below.
And two small nitpicks: 1: “Diverse” doesn’t mean “A lack of white people”. The media uses the word like that, but that’s because they’re using it wrong. 2: It’s not a racial bias, but a political bias. It’s not meant to balance the image generation so that every gender and color appear with the same probability, it’s meant to promote one side of the culture war. The lack of white people is due to the in-group bias of white liberals (which, by the way, is negative): https://tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net/production/883104fdaad1810c8dbbb2a6df5a4b6ed7d5036f-2560x1138.jpg
Ideological bias of image generators isn’t new either, it’s just so in-your-face this time that the usual mental gymnastics can’t deny it. They probably didn’t mean to make this bias this strong, but they made it on purpose (Google image search has had the same bias for years)
They’re not doing this because they’re afraid of controversy, nor because of moral concerns. A company playing political games appears profitable though, so they’re likely “forced” to play politics by Moloch (nash’s equilibrium). Finally, I’m sort of hoping that this is all an elephant in the room, along with all the other obvious things that I’m not writing?
He doesn’t mean politically conservative, he means that Google has traditionally been conservative when it comes to releasing new products...to the point where potentially lucrative products and services rot on the vine.
How long time span is covered here? Google has been progressive for a long time in my opinion. Does nobody remember the paper “Googles Ideological Echo Chamber” which became a controversy in 2017 for instance?(I misunderstood the statement, see reply below.And two small nitpicks:
1: “Diverse” doesn’t mean “A lack of white people”. The media uses the word like that, but that’s because they’re using it wrong.
2: It’s not a racial bias, but a political bias. It’s not meant to balance the image generation so that every gender and color appear with the same probability, it’s meant to promote one side of the culture war. The lack of white people is due to the in-group bias of white liberals (which, by the way, is negative): https://tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net/production/883104fdaad1810c8dbbb2a6df5a4b6ed7d5036f-2560x1138.jpg
Ideological bias of image generators isn’t new either, it’s just so in-your-face this time that the usual mental gymnastics can’t deny it. They probably didn’t mean to make this bias this strong, but they made it on purpose (Google image search has had the same bias for years)
They’re not doing this because they’re afraid of controversy, nor because of moral concerns. A company playing political games appears profitable though, so they’re likely “forced” to play politics by Moloch (nash’s equilibrium). Finally, I’m sort of hoping that this is all an elephant in the room, along with all the other obvious things that I’m not writing?
He doesn’t mean politically conservative, he means that Google has traditionally been conservative when it comes to releasing new products...to the point where potentially lucrative products and services rot on the vine.
I see, thanks for the correction! Google’s product releases are outside of my expertise