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>>kevema+(OP)
>While we leave an in-depth empirical analysis of social and cultural biases to future work, our small scale internal assessments reveal several limitations that guide our decision not to release our model at this time.

Some of the reasoning:

>Preliminary assessment also suggests Imagen encodes several social biases and stereotypes, including an overall bias towards generating images of people with lighter skin tones and a tendency for images portraying different professions to align with Western gender stereotypes. Finally, even when we focus generations away from people, our preliminary analysis indicates Imagen encodes a range of social and cultural biases when generating images of activities, events, and objects. We aim to make progress on several of these open challenges and limitations in future work.

Really sad that breakthrough technologies are going to be withheld due to our inability to cope with the results.

>>daenz+b5
Translation: we need to hand-tune this to not reflect reality but instead the world as we (Caucasian/Asian male American woke upper-middle class San Fransisco engineers) wish it to be.

Maybe that's a nice thing, I wouldn't say their values are wrong but let's call a spade a spade.

>>user39+C6
Translation: AI has the potential to transform society. When we release this model to the public it will be used in ways we haven’t anticipated. We know the model has bias and we need more time to consider releasing this to the public out of concerns that this transformative technology further perpetuate mistakes that we’ve made in our recent past.

>>josho+G8
> it will be used in ways we haven’t anticipated

Oh yeah, as a woman who grew up in a Third World country, how an AI model generates images would have deeply affected my daily struggles! /s

It's kinda insulting that they think that this would be insulting. Like "Oh no I asked the model to draw a doctor and it drew a male doctor, I guess there's no point in me pursuing medical studies" ...

>>curiou+s9
Yes actually, subconscious bias due to historical prejudice does have a large effect on society. Obviously there are things with much larger effects, that doesn't mean that this doesn't exist.

> Oh no I asked the model to draw a doctor and it drew a male doctor, I guess there's no point in me pursuing medical studies

If you don't think this is a real thing that happens to children you're not thinking especially hard. It doesn't have to be common to be real.

>>colinm+zd
> If you don't think this is a real thing that happens to children you're not thinking especially hard

I believe that's where parenting comes in. Maybe I'm too cynical but I think that the parents' job is to undo all of the harm done by society and instill in their children the "correct" values.