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January 12, 2024

Based on the location, the image variations are stuck at certain stereotypes

  • January 12, 2024
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Hello, 

I tried Firefly's text to image adaptation. I wrote "two people talking" and it showed up two Arabic women/men talking in traditional Arabic clothes with a mosque background. I changed the title to "two modern people talking" and the similar images appeared. Is it possible that because my location shows up as Eastern Europe/Middle East, the images appear to the location accordingly? If so, it is so stereotypical and a weird bug. Please consider fixing this problem, it is really weird to get this outcome even with detailed explanations. For example, I tried "two modern people talking in Izmir" -Izmir is a city in Turkey- and it showed up only two Arabic men again, no women whatsoever, with traditional clothes as if I wrote in Saudi Arabia... I just don't understand why this happens. Thank you for considering the solution.

16 replies

Inspiring
May 2, 2024

This issue of ethnicity and your geolocation determine to a degree the behind-the-scenes-generated output in Firefly, and this could use more attention. While it isn't difficult to specify ethnicity in people or objects in the scene, it can be counterproductive to have to write prompts to counteract automatic geolocation settings. The prompt is still the main rudder of course in determining output, but to propose building in some sort of 'ethnicity strength' slider that will strengthen your prompts that need to be 'culturally accurate', or to lessen the strength so that it includes more randomness in generating people from different ethnicities.

Zaid Al Hilali
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 14, 2024

Now based on these findings, I wonder if Adobe have documented these in their FAQs?

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 13, 2024

You may be right; I logged out entirely and logged back into my Adobe account, and the hijabs have gone away...

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 13, 2024

I believe there is some base information carried from generation to generation in the same thread (my terminology). Try going back to the main firefly screen and start a new session.

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Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 13, 2024

I didn't use those terms in any of my prompts, but perhaps Firefly includes some of the details from earlier prompts?

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Zaid Al Hilali
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 13, 2024

Jill, you may have answered the first poster. If part of your description is now stuck with every new generate, so maybe @mellonin typed a prompt sometime earlier that includes a "mosque" or "Muslim" which is affecting every new generate!

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 13, 2024

I could not get rid of the hijab, not matter what wording I tried: "No hijab", "without hijab", "no headcovering", "no hat".... Those hijabs are stuck on there to stay !

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Zaid Al Hilali
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 13, 2024

So true. Apparently we need to mention hijab in the prompt.

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 13, 2024

Interesting. Is it typical for young women to be so modestly dressed? When I initially asked for "middle eastern" people, all of the women were wearing a hijab.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Zaid Al Hilali
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 13, 2024

Kind of similar results to yours, Jill