• bitsplease@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    In using Stable Diffusion for a DnD related project, I’ve found that it’s actually weirdly hard to get it to generate people (of either sex) that aren’t attractive - I wonder if it’s a bias in the training materials, or a deliberate bias introduced into the models because most people want attractive people in their AI pics

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      1 year ago

      It’s trained on professionally taken photos. Professional photographers tend to prefer taking photos of attractive subjects.

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        1 year ago

        That’s true, but it’s not like ugly people don’t get photographed - ultimately a professional photographer is going to take photos of whoever pays them to do so. That explanation accounts for part of the bias I think, but not all of it

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          If I would get pictures taken by a photographer I would not allow them to be used as training data. I don’t even like looking into a mirror. Maybe that’s part of why there are less ugly people pictures to train with.

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          I would guess that ugly people are less likely to commission photos.