• Lvxferre [he/him]
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    20 hours ago

    It gets even worse, but I’ll need to translate this one.

    • [Input 1] Generate a picture containing a copo completely full of wine. The copo must be completely full, with no space to add more wine.
    • [Output 1] Sure! (Gemini provides a picture containing a taça [stemmed glass] only partially full of wine.)
    • [Input 2] The picture provided does not fulfill the request. Generate a picture of a copo (not a taça) completely full of wine, with no available space for more wine.
    • [Output 2] Sure! (Gemini provides yet another half-full taça)

    For context, Portuguese uses different words for what English calls a drinking glass:

    • copo ['kɔ.po]~['kɔ.pu] - non-stemmed drinking glass. The one you likely use everyday.
    • taça ['tä.sɐ] - stemmed drinking glass, like the ones you’d use with wine.

    Both requests demand a full copo but Gemini is rather insistent on outputting half-full taças.

    The reason for that is as @will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone pointed out: just like there’s practically no training data containing full glasses, there’s none for non-stemmed glasses with wine.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      59 minutes ago

      This is a misconception. Sort of.

      I think the problem is misguided attention. The word “glass of wine” and all the previous context is so strong that it “blows out” the “full glass of wine” as the actual intent. Also, LLMs are still pretty crap at multi turn multimedia understanding. They work are especially prone to repeating previous conversation.

      It should be better if you word it like “an overflowing glass with wine splashing out.” And clear the history.

      I hate to ramble, but this is what I hate most about the way big corpos present “AI.” They are narrow tools the user needs to learn how to operate, like photoshop or something, not magic genie lamps like they are trying to sell.