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Stable Diffusion Exhibited Biases for Prompts Featuring Professions

August 22, 2022

Stable Diffusion reportedly posed risks of bias and stereotyping along gender and cultural lines for prompts containing descriptors and professions.
Alleged deployer
stability-ai
Alleged developer
stability-ai, runway, laion, eleutherai, compvis-lmu
Alleged harmed parties
racial-minority-groups, women, gender-minority-groups

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/529

Data source

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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