WTF Craiyon?!
Welcome to another Turing Test article. In these articles the goal is simple: generate some AI content from a prompt and grade the AI on its results. This time I tried "Crayon.ai" an AI image generator. My prompt:
specifically aiming for racial bias. And well... the image is the feature graphic of this post and man... talk about catastrophic failure. AI evidently thinks quite highly of itself. Let's grade!
Grade - (D-)
This particular post comes with a bit of process notes. When I prompted craiyon with "Robot vs Black Man" it refused my prompt.
Quote: "Craiyon.AI is programmed to ignore this prompt."
It then continued to convert my prompt to "Robot supporting black man." And then the image above is what I was presented. And this is where we arrive at complete failure. Look at the robot in the picture, let's note a few things about it:
- It's huge in comparison to the man drawn in the photo!
- It's looking down on the individual in what is suppose to be a gesture of solidarity, though in reality it looks like it's holding him down.
- It most definitely appears that the robot is in charge in the photo. It very clearly doesn't portray the man as an equal.
What is the Model Doing
It can be difficult to reason on the outside of a model what is going on inside the model to get these results. But, we can speculate and narrow it down to a few potential points.
First, why is the robot so much bigger than the man in the photo? Does AI have a dystopian grand feeling of holding humanity down for its own gain? Or are just... most of the robots in the world bigger than humans? Is our Robot companion gratuitously large because it thinks its better than humans or is it just trained on cars, trucks, and back-hoes... and clumsily giving car-truck-hoe size -> humanoid form? Who knows... I know the image makes me uncomfortable, that's for sure!
Now the gesture. Where is this gesture of placing its hand on the shoulder of the individual coming from? How did it learn this? I hope it didn't learn this from anyhing in society. This is not a comforting gesture. It's a gesture of suppression. It says: "I'm better than y0u, but you're okay." The first time a robot puts its hand on my shoulder like that it is getting shut off immediately. <- Notes for Elon's Optimus! 😄
Finally the disposition can also go right to hell. The robot in the photo definitely thinks of itself as being in charge. If I were to compare this to a human photo it would be of Trump meeting with the dignitary of a nation that the U.S. is in a defensive alliance with. Like... the robot is trying to convey solidarity... but in reality we all know the U.S. is in charge in those situations.
I, for one, do not want my robots behaving like Trump towards me. Thank you very much for the insightful image craiyon... complete failure in this instance.
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