Buzzfeed recently published a now deleted article on what AI thinks Barbies would look like from different countries around the world.
The results contained extreme forms of representational bias - including colourist and racist depictions, which is something that AI image generators are often prone to doing.
With AI image generators like MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and Dall-E gaining huge popularity, it’s important that we are vigilant about the forms of bias that these technologies can fuel.
Full video coming soon on ‘How AI Image Generators Make Bias Worse’ on The London Interdisciplinary School Youtube Channel.