Incident 179: DALL-E 2 Reported for Gender and Racially Biased Outputs

Description: Developers of OpenAI's DALL-E 2 cited risks of the model, varying from misuse as disinformation and explicit content generation, to gender and racial bias.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed underrepresented groups and Minority Groups.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
179
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-04-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

GMF Taxonomy Classifications

Taxonomy Details

Known AI Goal

Visual Art Generation

Known AI Technology

Transformer, Distributional Learning

Known AI Technical Failure

Distributional Bias, Unsafe Exposure or Access, Misinformation Generation Hazard, Inappropriate Training Content

Potential AI Technical Failure

Unauthorized Data, Lack of Transparency

DALL·E 2 Preview - Risks and Limitations
github.com · 2022

Summary

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A new AI draws delightful and not-so-delightful images
vox.com · 2022

You may have seen some weird and whimsical pictures floating around the internet recently. There’s a Shiba Inu dog wearing a beret and black turtleneck. And a sea otter in the style of “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by the Dutch painter Vermee…

AI art tool DALL-E 2 adds 'black' or 'female' to some image prompts
newscientist.com · 2022

Researchers experimenting with OpenAI's text-to-image tool, DALL-E 2, noticed that it seems to covertly be adding words such as "black" and "female" to image prompts, seemingly in an effort to diversify its output

Artificial intelligence fi…

Variants

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