An estimated 99% of farm animals in the United States are raised in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Often called factory farms, these facilities raise livestock in densely packed, enclosed spaces, with some housing tens of thousands of animals at one time.

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In a new Technology in Society paper, Sheng and co-authors analyzed 4,800 independently generated images and found that ChatGPT defaulted to pastoral imagery when prompted to depict dairy and pig farms, even when they requested more realistic images. However, when researchers disabled the underlying prompt revision, the generated images depicted more intensive livestock farming.

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    3 days ago

    It’s a little bit more specific than that, prompt rewriting is a step they added intentionally to remap prompts. So not exactly trained to make them less about reality, but actually changes your prompt to the image generator to be less about reality

    Sheng found an explanation deep within the technical documentation for DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s text-to-image AI model for ChatGPT: An internal language model rewrites or expands user prompts to add more details before images are generated.