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Why not just randomize the gender, age, race, etc and be done with it? That way if someone is offended or under- or over-represented it will only be by accident.

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The whole point of this discussion is various counterexamples where Gemini did "just randomize the gender, age, race" and kept generating female popes, African nazis, Asian vikings etc even when explicitly prompted to do the white male version. Not all contexts are or should be diverse by default.

I agree. But it sounds like they didn't randomize them. They made it so they explicitly can't be white. Random would mean put all the options into a hat and pull one out. This makes sense at least for non-historical contexts.

It makes sense for some non-historical contexts. It does not make sense to fully randomise them for "pope" for example. Nor does it makes sense if you want an image depicting the political elite of present day Saudi Arabia. In both those cases it'd misrepresent those institutions as more diverse and progressive than they are.

If you asked for "future pope" then maybe, but misrepresenting the diversity that regressive organisations allow to exist today is little better than misrepresenting historical lack of diversity.

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