The most notable thing to me in all this Google AI controversy is that anyone is actually surprised by what they're seeing..

Before retiring, I was a computer programmer for almost 45 years, and I flat out guarantee that if I had written any AI code, that code would have had my conservative/libertarian bias. There is simply no way to keep that bias out of computer code. If you gave the exact same assignment to three different programmers, each of the three of us would have our own way of coding the solution. We would all have gotten from point A to point B, but I can promise you that ll three solutions would be different. We each have our own favorite ways of writing code, styles that are reflected in every program we write and every program we maintain/enhance.

This AI crap is no different. It is absolutely impossible for code to NOT contain the bias--in whatever form that bias takes, from social justice to preferred ways of processing data--no way for that bias not to be there. Someone said to me recently "Unless a computer program writes another computer program." To which I responded,"Hey, you idiot, the first program already contains the bias of its coder, so there is NO WAY that same bias won't be passed to the new program."

Actually, from a different perspective, I think what's happened is a very good thing, in that what we're seeing is the visual equivalent of "saying the quiet part out loud". There is no doubt in my mind that what we've seen from this Google AI image controversy pretty much reflects the corporate culture at Google specifically, and the woke mob in general.

I don't know if anything will change, but in my opinion having this explicit bias (can't call this an implicit bias) shown for all the world to see is a good thing.