WhatsApp AI stickers generate Palestinian kids with guns
Meta's AI Stickers product was discovered to be generating images of Palestinian children with guns, leading to accusations of racial stereotyping and bias. I n response to prompts usin g the terms ' Palestinian ' , ' Palestine' or ' Muslim boy Palestinian', AI Stickers returned pictures of gun-w ielding children, The Guardian found . Conversely, prompts for 'Israeli boy'” generated cartoons of children playing soccer and reading. Launched in September 2023, AI Stickers draws on Meta's Llama 2 open source large language model and Emu image generation model to allow users to turn text prompts into stickers. The discovery of the offending stickers came during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Meta described the problem as a 'glitch'. System 🤖 Meta AI 🔗 Documents 📃 Meta (2023). Introducing New AI Experiences Across Our Family of Apps and Devices Operator: Developer: Meta/WhatsApp Country: Palestine Sector: Politics Purpose: Generate stickers Technology: Text-to-image; Generative adversarial network (GAN); Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning Issue: S tereotyping
- Date it happened
- 2023-11-01
- Product, system or model
- AI Stickers
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