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
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