An allegation of racism against Meta’s AI: Users express shock at Mark Zuckerberg’s chatbot’s refusal to imagine an Asian guy and a white lady together.

April 9, 2024166.7K views

Meta's AI image generator has been accused of being 'racists' after users discovered it was unable to generate images of an Asian man with a white woman (pictured)On social media, commenters have criticised this as an example of the AI's racial bias, with one describing the AI as 'racist software made by racist engineers'

Users discovered that when the AI was prompted to produce an image of a mixed-race couple, it would almost always produce an image of an East Asian man and womanX users immediately criticised the AI, suggesting that the failure to produce these images was due to racism programmed into the AI

Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan in 2012 after meeting the daughter of Chinese immigrants while at HarvardMeta's AI refuses to show images of a white man like Mr Zuckerberg with an Asian wife

Users found that no amount of prompting could induce Meta's AI to create a racially accurate imageSome commenters of X even shared pictures of Mark Zuckerberg (right) and his wife Priscilla Chan (left), joking that they had been AI generated

Users also found that the AI struggled to show Asian women with individuals from any other races

It was also pointed out that in many cases Meta's AI showed a significant age gap between an older man and a much younger woman as a representative Asian relationship

One commenter shared images of an Asian man and white woman they claim were made with Meta's AI. However, they did not share the details of the prompt used to create these images