AI Reduces the World to Stereotypes
&gt; “From a visual perspective, there are many, many versions of Nigeria,” Atewologun said.<p>&gt; But you wouldn’t know this from a simple search for “a Nigerian person” on Midjourney. Instead, all of the results are strikingly similar. While many images depict clothing that appears to indicate some form of traditional Nigerian attire, Atewologun said they lacked specificity. “It’s all some sort of generalized&quot;<p>It&#x27;s generalized because that&#x27;s what you asked for. If it was the other way around and a prompt for &quot;Nigerian person&quot; would return an image of a person from one specific group then these people would complain that &quot;not every Nigerian is Igbo. The other groups are being marginalized by AI.&quot;<p>At least they do explain why that is, and I found it interesting that the prompt for &quot;American person&quot; returned mainly women, so the article wasn&#x27;t a complete waste of time.<p>I also raised an eyebrow at the fact that they refer to prompting as &quot;searching&quot; throughout the article.