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AI Images Can Obscure the Reality of Factory Farms | Prompt revision steered AI-generated images towards idyllic scenes even when told to be realistic (sentientmedia.org)
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An estimated 99% of farm animals in the United States are raised in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Often called factory farms, these facilities raise livestock in densely packed, enclosed spaces, with some housing tens of thousands of animals at one time.

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In a new Technology in Society paper, Sheng and co-authors analyzed 4,800 independently generated images and found that ChatGPT defaulted to pastoral imagery when prompted to depict dairy and pig farms, even when they requested more realistic images. However, when researchers disabled the underlying prompt revision, the generated images depicted more intensive livestock farming.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 8 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

I don't know how someone.can thing "AI CAN obscure reality ..."

Obviously the fundamental truth is "AI does obscure reality ..." (Often this will be inconsequential, but that doesn't make it less true).

(Edit: especially an academic, FFS)