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Just weeks after Google was forced to shut down its 'woke' AI, another tech giant faces criticism over its bot's racial bias.
Meta's AI image generator has been accused of being 'racist' after users discovered it was unable to imagine an Asian man with a white woman.
The AI tool, created by Facebook's parent company, is able to take almost any written prompt and convert it into a shockingly realistic image within seconds.
However, users found the AI was unable to create images showing mixed-race couples, despite the fact that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is himself married to an Asian woman.
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'.
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'
Mia Satto, a reporter at The Verge, attempted to generate images using prompts like 'Asian man and Caucasian friend' or 'Asian man and white wife'.
She discovered that only once across 'dozens' of tests was Meta's AI able to show a white man and an Asian woman.
In all other instances, Meta's AI instead returned images of East Asian men and women.
Changing the prompt to request platonic relationships such as 'Asian man with Caucasian friend' also failed to produce any correct results.
Ms Satto wrote: 'The image generator not being able to conceive of Asian people standing next to white people is egregious.
'Once again, generative AI, rather than allowing the imagination to take flight, imprisons it within a formalization of society’s dumber impulses.'
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 woman
X users immediately criticised the AI, suggesting that the failure to produce these images was due to racism programmed into the AI
Ms Satto herself does not accuse Meta of creating a racist AI, adding only that the AI displays indications of bias and leans into stereotypes.
On social media, however, many took their criticism further, branding Meta's AI tool as explicitly racist.
One commenter on X (formerly Twitter), wrote: 'Thank you for putting in the spotlight an often overlooked of why AI sucks: it is so incredibly ******* racist'.
Another simply added: 'Pretty racist META lol'.
As some commenters pointed out, the AI's apparent bias is particularly surprising given that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, is married to an East Asian woman.
Priscilla Chan, the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America, met Zuckerberg at Harvard before marrying
