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>I don’t think Stable Diffusion has ever generated a person of color for me unless I specifically included it in the prompt, for instance.

By person of color do you just mean black people?

Because the top SD models (and I don't mean the anime ones) are notorious for generating asian people by default, to the point that people often put 'asian' in the negative prompt when they want to generate generate non-asians.

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The way we classify race by color is so confusing. I’ve seen ‘white’ Asians with skin so milky white that the hex value is greater than most “whites” from the UK.

Meanwhile, to a “brown” person, I’m considered white when other southeast Asians and “whites” consider me brown.

Can we stop with the color thing and just go by nationality or region? The fact that American universities ask for my race really threw me off, especially considering some don’t even have a “prefer not to say” option.

Race isn't defined just by color (in the US). As you note many Asian people are fair skinned. Dyeing your skin has no impact on race in most people's eyes

Yet people still use terms like “white” “colored” and “brown”.

they might sound like they are referencing literal colors but they aren't. language is weird. not all "white elephants" are white. or even elephants.

I have a feeling that the phrase 'person of color' will come to feel just (or at least almost) as outdated as 'colored person' does within the next ten years or so. All of this obsession with skin tone feels very icky, not least because it's completely unscientific. I'm sure we can work towards erasing racism without having to resort to the regressive practice of grouping and separating people into different tribes.

I mostly mean non-white, I can’t say I share that experience regarding asians being generated.

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