Description: A WIRED investigation found that OpenAI’s video generation model, Sora, exhibits representational bias across race, gender, body type, and disability. In tests using 250 prompts, Sora was more likely to depict CEOs and professors as men, flight attendants and childcare workers as women, and showed limited or stereotypical portrayals of disabled individuals and people with larger bodies.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI and Sora developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Marginalized groups , Women , people with disabilities , People with larger bodies , LGBTQ+ people , People of color and General public.
Alleged implicated AI system: Sora
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1000
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-03-23
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are as conspicuous as ever. A WIRED investigation, which included a review of hundreds of AI-generated videos, has found th…
It's been apparent since ChatGPT changed the digital landscape that generative AI models are plagued with biases. And as video-generating AIs come further along, these worrying patterns are being brought into even sharper relief — as it's o…
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