I am a fresh new owner of an R1 here in France.
Love the product great job, but playing a bit with the magic camera I have observed a strange behavior regarding ethnicity.
Fact is that almost 50% of the time magic camera as changed my subjects captured.
Exemples:
My wife which is half Polish and French has been transformed to an Asiatic woman.
My wife has been transformed to an Afro with dark skin.
My brown hair kid (6 yo) has been transformed to a small Afro kid.
My blond hair nephew has been transformed to an Afro kid (2 yo).
I found this behavior really strange as for me nothing in the original picture would explain a reason to those transformations (another kids with this ethnicity in the field of view, a clothing, an object or something similarā¦).
I was wondering if this is something that will be fixed soon?
I actually stopped pointing the magic camera at people as it ruined the photos 99% of the time.
This is the people behind the AI models being used by rabbit and nothing to do with rabbit.
There is a big movement in the world to create inclusion and remove stereo types by injecting extra code behind the original prompt.
Google had a lot of issues with this when they suddenly would not create only white families. They would not give accurate figures in history as they were over injecting racial and gender bias. Just google āBlack Naziā and you will see what I mean.
Its a political thing unfortunately where the white races are slowly being eradicated from history and replaced by a multicultural, multiethnicity idealogue.
In the UK now its almost impossible to see a white family/couple in any advertising either in press, marketing or television.
Hollywood has been doing the same with either race or gender swapping in a lot of new films and TV shows. All of which ruins the experience.
Itās not just you, thatās why thereās that giant disclaimer under the magic pics in the rabbithole explaining how it doesnāt pay much attention to details like race or gender and might get them wrong. It does it to everyone with no apparent preferences or bias.
Such a weird approach to force such a thing, why not just stick to the ārealityā.
Fact is that doing this is even weirder as to me this is not something anyone would like to play around, I have never thought to myself āLet me see how I would look like if I was an Asiaticā¦ Oh let us see how our kids would be if they were Afroā¦ā very weird to me this behaviour.
Omfg. No one intentionally made the technology work this way. And no one forcing you to use it. The point of magic cam isnāt to show what people would look like as different ethnicities, itās to make pictures that look kinda like the original but altered in random ways. Itās just for funā¦It doesnāt ALWAYS change a peopleās apparent race, but if that makes you so uncomfortable hereās a thought: donāt use magic cam. If you canāt understand why people might enjoy an ai reimagined image, if you want all your images to be perfect representations of reality, than just use a normal camera.
Iāve found the best way to think about the magic camera; is that it is an implementation of the ātelephone gameā but with an artist at the end.
So, when you take a photo, the R1 goes through this process:
A realistic photo is taken
One type of AI describes the photo in words
Another type of AI reads the description
It then attempts to build a logical picture
The number of words available to describe the photo are somewhat limited. Iād wager facial descriptors are available, but direct mention of an enthnicity is not.
Thatās why, hypothetically, when I take a magic selfie during my sunset doobie walk, it paints me as east asian. The one AI knows I have skin, and itās telling the second AI what colour the flesh should be based on a full spectrum colour chart. The second AI then references itās huge list of images searching for any which are known to have skin in them and match the colour code.
So, when Iām stoned out of my tree and the sunset is on my face, a low-grade picture of me kind-of resembles the selfies of one billion or more people. Anything after that is subjectivity.
Donāt know what it say cause you have to go through like bunch adds and a paid subscription to read it soooā¦does rabbit even use dalle? Is it even relevant?