zlacker

I don't think we'd want the model to reflect the global statistics. We'd usually want it to reflect our own culture by default, unless it had contextual clues to do something else.

For example, the most eaten foods globally are maize, rice, wheat, cassava, etc. If it always depicted foods matching the global statistics, it wouldn't be giving most users what they expected from their prompt. American users would usually expect American foods, Japanese users would expect Japanese foods, etc.

> Does a bias towards lighter skin represent reality? I was under the impression that Caucasians are a minority globally.

Caucasians specifically are a global minority, but lighter skinned people are not, depending of course on how dark you consider skin to be "lighter skin". Most of the world's population is in Asia, so I guess a model that was globally statistically accurate would show mostly people from there.