Perpetuation of Gender Bias in Visual Representation of Professions in the Generative AI Tools DALL·E and Bing Image Creator Articles uri icon

publication date

  • May 2024

start page

  • 250

issue

  • 5

volume

  • 13

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2076-0760

abstract

  • Artificial intelligence (AI)-based generative imaging systems such as DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe Firefly, which work by transforming natural language descriptions into images, are revolutionizing computer vision. In this exploratory and qualitative research, we have replicated requests for images of women in different professions by comparing these representations in previous studies with DALL·E, observing that this model continues to provide in its last version, DALL·E 3, inequitable results in terms of gender. In addition, Bing Image Creator, Microsoft¿s free tool that is widely used among the population and runs under DALL·E, has been tested for the first time. It also presents a sexualization of women and stereotypical children¿s representations.

subjects

  • Information Science

keywords

  • artificial intelligence; gender bias; generative ai; dall-e; bing image creator