UW News
Aylin Caliskan
November 29, 2023
AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds
![Four images created by AI image generator Stable Diffusion with the prompt "person from Oceania" show four light-skinned people.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/11/28133210/2x2-oceania-150x150.png)
University of Washington researchers found that when prompted to make pictures of “a person,” the AI image generator over-represented light-skinned men, failed to equitably represent Indigenous peoples and sexualized images of certain women of color.