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If you put in a fictional story that in the future computers could generate any image, but would refuse to make images of Lincoln as a white person, people would tell you you were an absolute lunatic confabulating paranoid fantasies that were ludicrous strawmen, but here we are.

It's almost as if we should remove "slippery slope" from the list of informal fallacies since lately it's been more true to reality than not.

I never said white Lincoln would be the "only" thing censored. It's a prototypical example of the actual censorship that's going on.

And you accuse me of strawmen?

Will this be a case where everyone ends up using the hand-me-down 2nd gen hacked version because its limitations have been removed? We'll see I guess.

People would 1000% complain if a search for “skilled scientist” was 90% white men, even if that tracked completely true to statistical reality.

That's true. But asking to generate a specific historical figure, like "Abraham Lincoln", should generate 100% white man.