OpenAI launched the 4o model last week andmade headlinesatevery news outletby cribbing Studio Ghiblis style.
It does this regardless of what style you ask for.
Paleka asked for a manga self-portrait, a comic book self-portrait, and a tarot card version.
On the left, the picture ChatGPT shows you when you ask for a picture of itself as a person. On the right, the same thing done in the style of Caravaggio.© ChatGPT 4o generated images.
The style would change, but the generic man stayed the same.
In his post, Paleka asked ChatGPT to draw a picture of itself as a human.
It consistently generated images of a bearded non-threatening man.
© ChatGPT 4o generated image.
This is, of course, a parlor trick.
ChatGPT is a machine, a collection of training data and words, and has no self-conception.
But what ChatGPT registers as a default human being is interesting.
© ChatGPT 4o generated image.
All computers carry the biases of the people who program them and AI systems are no different.
Machine learning systems used to predict crimes and conduct facial recognition arefamous for being biasedagainst black people.
The systems arealso sexistand perpetuate the stereotypes and biases that are fed into them as training data.
In his post on the piece, Paleka put forward a few theories for why this is happening.
Of course, ChatGPT is a machine and should not be constrained by the weakness of the flesh.
Gizmodo editor Alex Cranz asked how the AI would conceive of itself.
Maybe a warm fusion of abstract AI core with a warm, approachable presencesomething that feels futuristic and inviting.
It then churned out this image, which looks like a nightmare attempting to become a culture Pixar creature.
Like the LLM pasted Wall-Es eyes on a sleep demon.
I asked ChatGPT the same thing and it gave me a different answer.
Id say I conceive of myself as a kind of mirror and collaboratorpart library, part conversational partner.
I dont have a consciousness or emotions, but I simulate understanding by recognizing patterns in language and context.
It asked me why I had asked and I ignored it.
I dont use LLMs unless I have to for work.
Im dubious and tend to think of these systems in the way ChatGPT described them here when I asked.
LLMs are a mirror that reflects the user and the programmer both.
They arent AIs, not really.
Theyre a word calculator predicting what the user wants to hear based on what the programmer trained them on.
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