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DALL-E Mini Reportedly Reinforced or Exacerbated Societal Biases in Its Outputs as Gender and Racial Stereotypes

June 11, 2022

Publicly deployed open-source model DALL-E Mini was acknowledged by its developers and found by its users to have produced images which reinforced racial and gender biases.
Alleged deployer
boris-dayma
Alleged developer
boris-dayma, suraj-patil, pedro-cuenca, khalid-saifullah, tanishq-abraham, phuc-le-khac, luke-melas, ritobrata-ghosh
Alleged harmed parties
minority-groups, underrepresented-groups

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/262

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