HISPI Project Cerebellum
AI Incidents

Lensa AI's Produced Unintended Sexually Explicit or Suggestive "Magic Avatars" for Women

November 22, 2022

Lensa AI's "Magic Avatars" were reportedly generating sexually explicit and sexualized features disproportionately for women and Asian women despite not submitting any sexual content.
Alleged deployer
lensa-ai
Alleged developer
stability-ai, runway, lensa-ai, laion, eleutherai, compvis-lmu
Alleged harmed parties
women-using-lensa-ai, asian-women-using-lensa-ai

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/423

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.