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Meta's AI Struggles to Depict Interracial Couples Accurately

The tech giant faces criticism for its image generator's inability to create pictures of mixed-race pairs, particularly involving Asian men and White women.

  • Meta's AI image generator, Imagine, faces criticism for failing to accurately depict interracial couples, particularly those involving Asian men with White women.
  • Despite numerous attempts and varied prompts, the tool consistently generated images of same-race couples, highlighting potential racial biases.
  • The issue has sparked wider concerns about the representation of race in AI technologies, with similar problems reported in tools developed by Google and OpenAI.
  • Meta has acknowledged the challenge of reducing bias in AI systems, emphasizing ongoing research and the importance of user feedback.
  • Interracial couples constitute a significant portion of the US population, with census data indicating that 19% of married opposite-sex couples were interracial in 2022.
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