News I’m still trying to generate an AI Asian man and white woman

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I inadvertently found myself on the AI-generated Asian people beat this past week. Last Wednesday, I found that Meta’s AI image generator built into Instagram messaging completely failed at creating an image of an Asian man and white woman using general prompts. Instead, it changed the woman’s race to Asian every time.

The next day, I tried the same prompts again and found that Meta appeared to have blocked prompts with keywords like “Asian man” or “African American man.” Shortly after I asked Meta about it, images were available again — but still with the race-swapping problem from the day before.

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