Summary of Ai-generated Faces Influence Gender Stereotypes and Racial Homogenization, by Nouar Aldahoul et al.
AI-generated faces influence gender stereotypes and racial homogenization
by Nouar AlDahoul, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Stable Diffusion, a popular text-to-image generative AI model, is used globally by millions. This study examines the racial and gender biases embedded within Stable Diffusion, analyzing its depiction of individuals across six races, two genders, 32 professions, and eight attributes. The results show significant biases, including racial homogenization, where Middle Eastern men are often portrayed as bearded, brown-skinned, and wearing traditional attire. To mitigate these biases, the authors propose debiasing solutions that allow users to specify desired distributions of race and gender while minimizing racial homogenization. Furthermore, a survey experiment reveals that being presented with inclusive AI-generated faces reduces people’s racial and gender biases, whereas non-inclusive images increase such biases, regardless of whether they are labeled as AI-generated. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at how well an AI model called Stable Diffusion can create realistic pictures. They found that the model has a problem – it often shows stereotypes about people based on their race and gender. For example, it might show Middle Eastern men with beards and traditional clothes. The researchers want to fix this problem by giving users more control over what kind of images are created. They also did an experiment where they showed people pictures made by the AI model and found that when people saw inclusive pictures, their biases went away. But when they saw non-inclusive pictures, their biases got worse. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion
