An estimated 99% of farm animals in the United States are raised in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Often called factory farms, these facilities raise livestock in densely packed, enclosed spaces, with some housing tens of thousands of animals at one time.
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In a new Technology in Society paper, Sheng and co-authors analyzed 4,800 independently generated images and found that ChatGPT defaulted to pastoral imagery when prompted to depict dairy and pig farms, even when they requested more realistic images. However, when researchers disabled the underlying prompt revision, the generated images depicted more intensive livestock farming.
You need to read the article.
Factory Farms aren’t making the AI images, researchers are. The complaint, apparently, is that AI image generators aren’t trained on enough animal cruelty to realistically depict a modern slaughterhouse.
This is a problem because the author of this article thinks that in the future, people will rely on AI image generators to understand the world around them, and honestly, if that’s already the assumption, then we are cooked.
No… Images of realistic farms can be generated by these models, but they are set up to intentionally block that realistic depiction.
Look at the examples in the article. The service is injecting extra instructions into all these requests invisibly.
But to be clear this means realistic as in depictions of factory farming at all, not necessarily still perfect representations of it either
I’m searching around but I can’t find it, there was some discussion of students doing research and how depicting fantasy farms undermines it’s actual use as a research tool.
The output of these models is highly editorialized and just like the recent court case the publishers should be liable for misinformation and slander generated by these things.