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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
It’s wild to me that the HN consensus is so often that 1) discourse around the internet is terrible, it’s full of spam and crap, and the internet is an awful unrepresentative snapshot of human existence, and 2) the biases of general-internet-training-data are fine in ML models because it just reflects real life.

>>6gvONx+Ie
The bias on HN is that people who prioritize being nice, or may possibly have humanities degrees or be ultra-libs from SF, are wrong because the correct answer would be cynical and cold-heartedly mechanical.

Other STEM adjacent communities feel similarly but I don’t get it from actual in person engineers much.

>>astran+sh
Being nice is alright, but why is it that this fundamental drive is so often an uninspiring explanation behind yet another incursion towards one's individual freedom, even if exercising said freedom doesn't bring any real harm to anyone involved?

Maybe the engineers conclude correctly that voicing this concern without the veil of anonymity will do nothing good to their humble livelihood, and thus you don't hear it from them in person.