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
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