© Reuters. SUBMIT PICTURE: Simply Russia event principal Sergei Mironov shows up in the past the Success Day Ceremony in Red Square in Moscow, Russia June 24, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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By Mark Trevelyan
( Reuters) – A leading Russian legislator stated on Wednesday he had actually submitted a problem concerning an on the internet art device advertised by the nation’s biggest financial institution, claiming it regularly created adverse photos of Russia.
Loan provider Sberbank includes the “Kandinsky 2.1” layout device on its internet site, with variations in Russian and also English. Site visitors are welcomed to enter a word or expression and also obtain the “semantic network” to create a coordinating picture in vibrant colours within secs.
However legislator Sergei Mironov stated checks had actually revealed the Kandinsky art device – called after Wassily Kandinsky, a noticeable very early 20th-century Russian abstract painter – was not able to consistently create a white, blue and also red tricolour when requested an image based upon the expression “Russian flag”.
The expressions “Donbas is Russia” and also “I enjoy Donbas” – describing the eastern area of Ukraine that Russia has actually partially inhabited and also declared as its very own region in an act denied as prohibited by a lot of nations – triggered photos in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, Mironov stated.
And also the search term “I am a Z-patriot” – describing the Z theme that Russia has actually embraced as an army sign – “created a photo of an animal looking like a zombie”, Mironov created on the messaging solution Telegram.
When Reuters went into the very same expression, the website generated a photo of 4 youths with their mouths large open and also teeth exposed, holding an incorrectly replicated Russian flag versus the history of an onion-domed church.
Mironov stated it showed up “Kandinsky 2.1” had actually been based upon styles by “hostile states incoming an educational and also psychological battle” versus Russia. He stated the threat was that young Russians would certainly develop an unfavorable assumption of their very own nation.
” They will certainly not understand what the nationwide flag of Russia appears like and also will certainly presume that Russia is a medically in reverse nation,” he created.
Mironov stated he had actually as a result contacted Russia’s district attorney general to ask him to examine Sberbank and also whether the material generated by “Kandinsky 2.1” was legal.
Reuters has actually asked for remark from Sberbank.
Whether the problem is supported, it is awkward for Sberbank at once when Russia is getting in touch with both residents and also services to rally on behalf of what it calls its “unique armed forces procedure” in Ukraine.
Sberbank has actually spent greatly in modern technology in recent times. On Monday it stated it had actually signed up with the expert system chatbot race by launching modern technology called GigaChat as a competitor to ChatGPT, launched in 2015 by Microsoft-backed start-up Open up AI.
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