Post #1607271

> It depends which AI you ask, no? Ask AI made in a mostly white country, you’re going to get pictures of mostly white people. Ask AI made in a mostly Asian country, it’ll be mostly Asian people. > ...it’s just what’s more common. I think you're misunderstanding the author's objection here. The problem is _exactly_ that the genAI will reflect "just what's more common," and that in doing so, it over-represents that which was already over-represented. It glosses over variety and difference, it reduces the past to a cartoon. It's the next bit that's important: > That makes “AI” perfect for creating the form of idealized, fictional “past” that fascists love to allude to (“make America great again“), a past that never existed but that needs to be saved or restored... This is how the original 20th century Fascists did things, too. It's not a hypothetically Fascist appeal, it's a historically Fascist appeal.