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Harmful Stereotyping of Non-Cisgendered People via Text-to-Image Systems

Text-to-image systems such as DALL-E are allegedly generating biased and often insulting representations of non-cisgender identities. The systems tend to generate stereotypical and sexualized images when prompted with gender identity terms like "trans," "nonbinary," or "queer," highlighting systemic issues of bias.

Date it happened
2023-07-03
Organisation involved
DALL-E
Product, system or model
DALL-E is an AI text-to-image generator that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
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