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It's interesting how Google stock is crashing today on this news, down 4% as of writing this, despite the story of the inaccurate images having broke on Thursday and Friday of last week. This shows additional weaknesses of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). The ability of social media to create a bandwagon or pile-on effect, especially over the weekend, produces a delay from the introduction of news and subsequent price impact, which is long enough to trade off of and profit, in violation of some of the stronger forms of the EMH. Someone could have shorted Google stock on Friday as this story was breaking and made a 4% profit on Monday.
What level of 'accuracy' (however you want to define that) is it that people are expecting from LLMs? At best these are only ever going to be creative tools.
Historical imagery is a popular use-case, and was certainly not accurate when including people.
But what level of 'accuracy' do people want though? Vikings never wore horned helmets.
Not secretly modifying people’s prompts to insert a political bias would be a start
Everything is political, some things are fashionable.
This story is heavily censored on hacker news

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?tab=rea... (scroll down to bottom)

39465301 #25 3 points 0 comments -> Google Gemini leaked its woke prompt injection process

39465255 #1 78 points 1 comments -> Google to Pause Gemini Image Generation of People After Issues

39506022 #30 -> Gemini: Who negatively impacted society more, Elon Musk or Hitler?

39508833 #17 30 points 24 comments -> Losing Trust in Google

39516032 #15 8 points 6 comments -> Gemini and Google's Culture

Google's overtly racist conduct is not limited to a single product or their generative AI in general, e.g. here is a submission I found removed from HN ( in fswd's comment below ) and independently validated myself (as of the time of this post you can too): https://imgur.com/a/c5l9LOX

It stinks that Google's misconduct there is in a flamewar prone subject area, but it is what it is.