Incident 553: Google's Overview Panel for Artist Edward Hopper Featured Image Generated in His Style by AI
Description: Google's knowledge panel for the American artist Edward Hopper featured an AI-generated image which was purportedly created in the artist's style but was not one of his works, the image of which was removed soon after.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Google users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
553
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2023-05-03
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
twitter.com · 2023
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If you don't think visual AI is a problem, this is what comes up when you @Google Edward Hopper.
futurism.com · 2023
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AI is already rewriting art history.
When you Googled the famed realist artist Edward Hopper this week, the first featured image that appeared was convincing enough. A lone woman, painted in the artist's signature soft, muted style, stared …
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.