WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’

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By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’

Meta’s own employees have reported and escalated the issue internally, a former Meta employee with knowledge of the discussions said.Meta’s own employees have reported and escalated the issue internally, a former Meta employee with knowledge of the discussions said.

Meta’s own employees have reported and escalated the issue internally, a person with knowledge of the discussions said. Prompted with “Israel” the feature returned the Israeli flag and a man dancing. The prompt of “Hamas” brought up the message “Couldn’t generate AI stickers. Please try again.”search for “Palestinian” that resulted in another, different image of a man holding a gun.

Kevin McAlister, a Meta spokesperson, said the company was aware of the issue and addressing it: “As we said when we launched the feature, the models could return inaccurate or inappropriate outputs as with all generative AI systems. We’ll continue to improve these features as they evolve and more people share their feedback.”

 

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