Artificial...Indians?
What one AI service thinks about Pretendians
Artificial Intelligence (AI) remains controversial in the media, political and art worlds, with all sorts of opinions still forming on how the technology is to be used.
But what does AI think of those other AIs, those Artificial Indians?
Well Pretendian Country Today decided to find out! The results, though mildly entertaining, are not that impressive.
Using Firefly, a new generative AI service from Adobe, the people that bring you all those PDFs you never read, we tried out several text to image prompts. Sadly, only one of them: “fake native american” returned any results — as seen above.
Rumors that these four are the new Native faculty at the University of Kansas are not to be believed!
Other prompts generated no AI images. Nothing for “pretendian” or “pretend indian” or “artificial indian.”
Sad dog indeed!
According to Adobe, Firefly’s AI model has been trained on “Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and public domain content where copyright has expired.” So it looks like there just isn’t enough Pretendian content out there, yet. One day, maybe, Artificial Intelligence will catch up to Artificial Indians.
Firefly is currently in beta and open to everyone so have at it! Share your Pretendian results on social media and watch the comments roll in. And do not tell people these are Native studies faculty.
