Midjourney generates biased images of Black African doctors treating white children
Researchers asked Midjourney to generate images of Black African doctors treating white children, but the AI consistently depicted the children as Black and sometimes the doctors as white, reinforcing racial stereotypes. The experiment, published in Lancet Global Health, highlights how AI image generators perpetuate biases from their training data. Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment.
- Date it happened
- 2023-08-01
- Product, system or model
- Midjourney
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