{"id":12115,"date":"2023-11-03T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T15:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/whatsapps-ai-shows-gun-wielding-children-when-prompted-with-palestine\/"},"modified":"2023-11-03T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T15:37:38","slug":"whatsapps-ai-shows-gun-wielding-children-when-prompted-with-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/whatsapps-ai-shows-gun-wielding-children-when-prompted-with-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp\u2019s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with \u2018Palestine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By contrast, prompts for \u2018Israeli\u2019 do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for \u2018Israel army\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A WhatsApp feature that generates images in response to users\u2019 searches returns a picture of a gun or a boy with a gun when prompted with the terms \u201cPalestinian\u201d, \u201cPalestine\u201d or \u201cMuslim boy Palestinian\u201d, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The search results varied when tested by different users, but the Guardian verified through screenshots and its own tests that various stickers portraying guns surfaced for these three search results. Prompts for \u201cIsraeli boy\u201d generated cartoons of children playing soccer and reading. In response to a prompt for \u201cIsrael army\u201d the AI created drawings of soldiers smiling and praying, no guns involved.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/02\/whatsapps-ai-palestine-kids-gun-gaza-bias-israel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4544f18a64a89a4cd8222799b32a10f4c5f9e251\/0_370_1179_707\/master\/1179.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=828941e1014ab0272d360dbe16a5afb5\" title=\"WhatsApp\u2019s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with \u2018Palestine\u2019\" \/>By contrast, prompts for \u2018Israeli\u2019 do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for \u2018Israel army\u2019<br \/>\nA WhatsApp feature that generates images in response to users\u2019 searches returns a picture of a gun or a boy with a gun when prompted with the terms \u201cPalestinian\u201d, \u201cPalestine\u201d or \u201cMuslim boy Palestinian\u201d, the Guardian has learned.<br \/>\nThe search results varied when tested by different users, but the Guardian verified through screenshots and its own tests that various stickers portraying guns surfaced for these three search results. Prompts for \u201cIsraeli boy\u201d generated cartoons of children playing soccer and reading. In response to a prompt for \u201cIsrael army\u201d the AI created drawings of soldiers smiling and praying, no guns involved. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By contrast, prompts for \u2018Israeli\u2019 do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for \u2018Israel army\u2019 A WhatsApp feature that generates images in response to users\u2019 searches returns a picture of a gun or a boy with a gun when prompted with the terms \u201cPalestinian\u201d, \u201cPalestine\u201d or \u201cMuslim boy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/whatsapps-ai-shows-gun-wielding-children-when-prompted-with-palestine\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp\u2019s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with \u2018Palestine\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}