Microsoft AI Is Alleged to Have Generated Violent Imagery of Minorities and Public Figures
November 10, 2023
Microsoft’s AI Image Creator, integrated with Bing and Windows Paint, produced disturbingly violent and graphic images featuring members of minority groups and public figures like Joe Biden and Pope Francis.
- Alleged deployer
- windows-paint, microsoft, bing-users, bing, ai-image-creator
- Alleged developer
- microsoft
- Alleged harmed parties
- sikh-people, president-joe-biden, pope-francis, navajo-people, minorities, hillary-clinton, general-public, donald-trump
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/621
Data source
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