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Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

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1092 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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shashankpritam ◴[26 Aug 25 16:52 UTC] No.45029159[source]▶
Are men not attractive? Or perhaps for Google, this blog is a targeted content? But who is it targeting? I would like to see the reasoning behind using all women images (at the least the top/first ones) to show off the model capabilities. I have noticed this trend in the image manipulation business a lot.
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zoeysmithe ◴[26 Aug 25 17:13 UTC] No.45029484[source]▶
Because tech is largely male dominated and has inherent sexism/patriarchy and images of women, especially conventionally attractive ones, has the perception of aiding sales.

Also women are seen as more cooperative and submissive, hence so many home assistants and AI being women's voices/femme coded.

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1. shashankpritam ◴[26 Aug 25 20:16 UTC] No.45031781[source]▶
Thank you for saying that. When I posted that GP comment - it got immediately downvoted and I couldn't even see my comment on the thread. I kind of expected to get it tagged 'meta/off-topic' and removed.

The way I see it - corporations would like to exploit prejudices for revenue. Of course, this is not something new. But it is a societal issue and the corporate world is playing a large role in it.

For context this was the original link - https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/image/