Meta’s AI image generation tool struggles to understand the concept of interracial couples.
The tool failed to correctly generate a black man with a white woman when asked by Business Insider. Instead, deliver images of a black couple.
The same thing happened when BI asked him to produce an image of an Asian man with a white woman: only photos of Asian couples were shown. However, the generator managed to depict an interracial couple with a black wife and a white husband.
Meta’s Imagine tool was able to generate images of a black woman and a white man kissing. Meta Imagine
Meta launched the standalone AI-powered image generator – Imagine with Meta – late last year. The tool is free and similar to OpenAI’s DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.
The Verge first reported the issue on Wednesday, with journalist Mia Sato saying she “tried dozens of times” to create images of Asian men and women with white partners and friends. Sato said the image generator was only capable of returning a single accurate image of the races specified in its prompts.
Representatives for Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI, made outside of normal business hours.
In the past, AI image generators have struggled to accurately portray people of different races.
Google’s Gemini image generator has caused a storm of backlash after users discovered it created historically inaccurate images. Google suspended the Gemini’s image-generating capability after users accused it of being too “woke.”
Prominent personalities, including Elon Muskused the incident as an example of what they saw as Google’s left-leaning culture and employees.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai later said the company was wrong about Gemini and that the flagship AI system had “offended our users and demonstrated bias.”
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