“DALL·E 2” tacking race or gender words to prompts before returning results

That's because the definition of white changes depending on who is in power and the control they want to exert over a populace. Irish people weren't considered white at one point

Pretty trite meme though. I’ve seen this gotcha 100 times in the last few days in response to this one topic.

Can we aim for better commentary than regurgitated quips?

If this is the behavior you want, you were always free to add these keywords to your prompts. OpenAI also could have made them optional as a checkbox. By appending them to every prompt, OpenAI strictly reduces what can be done with the tool.

I would make that same complaint about any forcible changes to prompts, but it is actually even worse in the case. It is a concession to the ruling political regime of the United States, which will be applied worldwide, even to users who don't share our politics. Imagine if China had made the first great text-to-image generator, but it would automatically append keywords like "heterosexual" in order to prevent images that clash with Chinese culture. I don't think Americans would be too happy about that.