• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It’s trained on professionally taken photos. Professional photographers tend to prefer taking photos of attractive subjects.

    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That’s true, but it’s not like ugly people don’t get photographed - ultimately a professional photographer is going to take photos of whoever pays them to do so. That explanation accounts for part of the bias I think, but not all of it

      • ErwinLottemann@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        If I would get pictures taken by a photographer I would not allow them to be used as training data. I don’t even like looking into a mirror. Maybe that’s part of why there are less ugly people pictures to train with.

      • biddy@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        I would guess that ugly people are less likely to commission photos.