What DALL·E Mini Thinks of IT Workers
Software developers, data scientists, designers, project managers, salesmen, etc
Hello fellow NLP enthusiasts! DALL·E Mini, a transformer-based text-to-image generation model, is having a lot of success these days. In this article, I ask DALL·E Mini to generate images from the names of professions in the IT field. For each profession, I will add a description of what DALL·E Mini has probably learned from its training data, with a touch of irony. Enjoy! 😄
The Data Scientist
Data scientists typically choose to live in teal-colored environments. They love to wear shirts and ties. Due to vision problems they suffer from since birth, evolution has equipped them with built-in glasses. Data scientists attract and confuse their enemies thanks to their ability to summon floating charts.
The Software Developer
Software developers thrive in monitor-rich environments. They like watching screens so much, they don’t turn to look at you even if you ask them for a photo. Software developers typically have a short lifespan, as their heads can fall overnight due to neck problems and poor posture, or from suffocation from an excess of monitors.
The Designer
Designers love environments where there is an abundance of colorful objects to hold and show to others. Their diet is mostly made up of post-it notes, from which they derive specific nutrients depending on their color. If you were to meet a bunch of designers in the wild, the safest way to handle the situation is to compliment them on the object they’re holding.
The DevOps Engineer
DevOps engineers prefer environments where they can admire a lot of blue. They are very fond of monitors but, unlike software developers, they prefer to watch them in company and with their hands in their pockets. To make this group practice easier, DevOps usually hang the screens on the walls or place them on the floor. They also like colorful chairs and avoid tables.
The Cloud Engineer
Each cloud engineer mates with a single cloud and their relationship lasts for a lifetime. They dress elegantly and always pay attention to safety. Cloud engineers have such a strong relationship with their own cloud that they usually tie each other up with ropes.
The Project Manager
The project managers live only in conditions of absolute white, perhaps to accentuate their jacket and tie by contrast. The recommended way to distinguish individuals of the species is to observe the color of the tie, or by observing how much hair is left on the head. Project managers like to hold things in hand. Unlike software developers, project managers enjoy appearing in photos.
The Social Media Manager
The social media manager, like a duck and its ducklings, is always followed by a flock of floating social icons. Theirs is a symbiotic but parasitic relationship: as time goes by, social media managers tend to fade, while social icons become bigger and bigger.
The Salesman
Salesmen grow up in white environments oriented at 45 degrees by those who observe them. They dress elegantly and prefer black and brown shirts. Salesmen’s body language is always impeccable and they attract their prey by cracking the best jokes.
The CEO
CEOs thrive in environments with radial gradients where they nest in the center. They have excellent photographic charisma, combined with the most spacious forehead in the entire animal kingdom. They are similar to salesmen, but bigger, or to project managers, but with more hair.
Bias and limitations
As you can see from the previous images, image generation models may reinforce societal biases (e.g. software developers are always men) or generate images that contain stereotypes against minority groups. This is because the model was trained on unfiltered data from the Internet, which is often biased. Read about understanding bias and fairness in AI systems.
Where can I try the model?
You can try the model on this Hugging Face space.
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