View: Poor little Gemini, it tries, tries, tries
image generation tool Gemini because it had thrown up images of, among other things, Black vikings, Black and East Asian 1930s German soldiers, and an African-American founding father of America.
As anyone familiar with the non-existence of Hindus buried in Christian cemeteries, men admitted in maternity wards of hospitals, or communists in Goldman Sachs, these images generated by Gemini have no bearing in real life. They are, in the truest sense, surreal, adj. strange, especially because of the combination of items that are never found together in reality. Quite like, say, Salvador Dali's 1944 painting, 'Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Waking', where two tigers are seen jumping out of a fish's mouth while a white elephant with incredibly long stilt-legs passes by in the background, all while a naked woman is lying back unbothered by everything happening around her. Tigers, fish, elephants and stretched-out women have yet to complain.
But quite unlike Dali and other surrealists, Gemini and other LLMs, don't really think up these images themselves. They create from what they are told — prompted — by their human overlords and by dipping into their vast vats of training datasets, and then go beyond these two parameters. They're darzis, not designers. Yet.
In effect, they are also like children — or adults unfettered by social, ethical, aesthetic norms — who when told to, say, draw their best friend may well come up with a smiling turd. But instead of a not-amused teacher
