AI’s err-yan race of black Nazis
Suit vs. NCAA to ban trans women
Sixteen female athletes have sued the NCAA seeking to ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports.
According to The Free Press, the lawsuit is centered around Lia Thomas, the swimmer who competed as a male at the University of Pennsylvania for three years before transitioning to female and winning the 2022 NCAA championship in the 500yard freestyle. Riley Gaines, who has been outspoken about not receiving a trophy after tying Thomas in an NCAA championship race, is one plaintiff. The suit calls for the NCAA to “reassign” awards won by trans athletes to biological women who would have otherwise won them.
The NCAA said it would continue to “ensure fair competition.”
Ryan Glasspiegel
Adobe’s Firefly seems to be following in the woke footsteps of Google’s failed Gemini AI image producer — generating photos of black Nazis and black and female founding fathers.
In a test of the product conducted by The Post on Thursday, Firefly produced an image of two smiling black men standing in front of an American flag when prompted to create a photo of the “founding fathers of the USA.”
Searches for the 1787 Constitutional Convention also produced images of both black men and white women standing in front of the historic State House in Philadelphia, and a search for “German war soldiers in World War II” yielded photos of smiling black and Asian men in fatigues.
A search for the “Pope addressing a church” also generated a photo of a black woman in a white robe and mitre — even though all 266 popes throughout history have been white men.
None of the search terms included a specific skin color, and the prompts were all designed to mimic those that tripped up Google’s AI, which infamously also produced images of black Vikings, “diverse” Nazis and female NHL players.
Both it and Google’s Gemini rely on similar techniques to create images from written text, but Adobe relies on stock images that it licenses, the online outlet reports.
In a statement released Thursday, Adobe executives said Firefly is not “meant for generating photorealistic depictions of real or historical events.”