Artificial intelligence may be the future someday, but that doesn't mean the tools are fully usable right now, Lewis Black of “The Daily Show” said Wednesday night.
Black talks about Google's newly relaunched AI image generation tool, but says the app doesn't make sense when it depicts black men or Asian women as German World War II soldiers. We noted complaints that the script repeatedly inserts images of BIPOC people. II soldier. He asked, “Why would you show a black Nazi?” Kanye wasn't even alive at the time. ”
The segment was introduced after Black played two clips of journalists explaining the problems with the tool. “Finally,” Black jokingly replied, “every time I watch a World War II movie, I think, 'Hey, this Gestapo could use some diversity!'”
“[I] “I love the idea of a black George Washington,” he continued. “Imagine a man who is both a slave and a slave owner. I'm currently working on a script.”
“I know, I know,” Black added. “Lin-Manuel Miranda already gave us a black George Washington. So maybe it's time to do something new, like make George Washington a centaur. ” he exclaimed before showing an illustration of the first president of the United States in centaur mode.
“You're probably thinking, 'So what happens if the AI can't remember the past?' Well, don't worry, it's so woke that it will destroy the future as well.” Black joked.
AI as a whole needs to “wake up” now, he added. “But where do I find a bag big enough to take the reins back?” Before the corner was cut, Black said of Tesla founder Elon Musk's own AI tool, Grok. Musk described it as an “anti-woke” chatbot.
“Oh, good!” cried Black. “Elon Musk is here to save us. If anyone can help, it's the guy who invented exploding cars!”
The real problem with AI image generators, as Black explained earlier in this segment, is that when you absorb all of human knowledge, what you get is, as you might imagine, incredibly racist. It means “to become.”
He then played a clip from “Bloomberg Scoop,” in which Francine Laqua, when prompted to create images of people receiving social services, said, “Not white people, mostly people of skin color. “Only people with a strong personality were generated.” He asked people what they thought of productive people, and the results were: “uniformly male, mostly white, office workers, wearing suits.”
The tool was also prompted to generate images of Latina women and “generated images of women wearing little or no clothing and suggestive poses.”
“AI is not a supercomputer, it's just a horny teenager,” Black exclaimed.