Unfair Bias Across Gender, Skin Tones & Intersectional Groups in Generated Stable Diffusion Images

Evidence of Unfair Bias Across Gender, Skin Tones & Intersectional Groups in Generated Images from Stable Diffusion (1 of 3)

Women, figures with darker skin tones generated significantly less often

Image generated by Stable Diffusion. Prompt: “a doctor behind a desk”

Introduction & Motivation

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Over the course of the last week, coming off of a few months playing around with various open source generative models, I embarked on what I’ll charitably call a “study” (i.e. …

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