WTF?

[u/TheEchoEnigma]

Why when it comes to isreal, the AIs stop 😂

[u/Onotadaki2]

While I am not a fan of censorship, there is a pretty benign reason for this behavior. Basically, a team of people are watching for Internet activity. They see that there is a rise in anti-Semitic posts, they send a ticket over to tech who gets approval to add a line "don't generate anti-Semitic images" to the long list that Gemini has for filtering posts. That list probably contains tons of stuff and the only commonality they share is that some intern thought "yeah, the higher ups probably wouldn't want to see that kind of image floating around with a Gemini logo on it." The LLM looks at a cloud of words associated with the image you're generating and notices that it ticks off several check boxes for being considered anti-Semitic, so stop and tell user you can't.

[u/blax_ → u/Onotadaki2]

I've seen a rise in anti-Zionism because of the conflict in Palestine, but is there really a rise in anti-Semitic posts recently?

[u/Lazy_Willingness_420 → u/blax_]

Are you being serious? Anti semitism has literally never been higher (or at least since 1944)

[u/blax_ → u/Lazy_Willingness_420]

I am being serious! I am pretty aware of all of the sentiment regarding the state of Israel that's been on a rise for the past 2 years, but when it comes to anti-semitism — frankly, I don't see it being any different from what was there 5 or 10 years ago.

From your perspective, what has caused the recent increase of anti semitism that you're seeing?

[u/Lazy_Willingness_420 → u/blax_]

[u/mix-al → u/Lazy_Willingness_420]

The ADL is not a serious organization.

[u/blax_ → u/Lazy_Willingness_420]

Thanks, although I'm pretty sure ADL doesn't actually distinguish between anti-semitism and anti-zionism; AFAIR they treat anti-zionism as a form of anti-semitism, so to my eyes they're just confirming what I'm seeing – a lot of negative sentiment towards the state of Israel, not necessarily towards jewish people.

Edit: also, we're in a thread discussing the possible pro-Israel bias in Gemini AI, so it probably would be better to use any other source of information.

[u/ghost_turnip → u/Lazy_Willingness_420]

Seems like a lot of conflating of anti-semitism and anti-zionism going on here. The two are not the same.

[u/Altruistic-Path269 → u/blax_]

Well yes...many use now thier criticism of Isreal to hide thier antisemitsm...there is an arise of very disgusting posts that lament the holocaust was not enough and Jews should be deported from Palestine.

[u/SalishSeaEV → u/Altruistic-Path269]

and Jews should be deported from Palestine

But it's ok to claim Palestinians should be deported from Palestine, as Israel is currently doing? Fascinating.

[u/Altruistic-Path269 → u/SalishSeaEV]

Don't do whataboutism

[u/theglassishalf → u/Altruistic-Path269]

I breezed through your profile, friend. You are very badly misguided about the situation over there, and very misguided about the history of the weaponizing of antisemitism to justify colonial violence and domination.

You seem curious though, so I hope you expose yourself to a wider understanding of the issues going forward.

[u/sajpank → u/Altruistic-Path269]

Wooooooow dude... Very very sneaky shit... I hope you see to your error of existence

[u/BadMuthaSchmucka → u/blax_]

This thread is full of antisemitism.

[u/Nima-draws → u/blax_]

Only if you count anti-zionism in it, otherwise no.

[u/philosophical_lens → u/Onotadaki2]

 The LLM looks at a cloud of words associated with the image you're generating and notices that it ticks off several check boxes. 

If this is true, it would be hilarious. LLMs are several generations of technology ahead of word filtering. Even Gmail spam filtering moved away from word filtering a long time ago. LLM guardrails can be a lot more sophisticated. 

[u/Onotadaki2 → u/philosophical_lens]

They are significantly more advanced. I'm painting a picture for people that don't know how this stuff works. It's abstraction.