Incident 686: Meta AI Image Generator Reportedly Fails to Accurately Represent Interracial Relationships

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Description: Meta's AI image generator is alleged to produce inaccurate and biased images, consistently failing to depict interracial relationships involving Asian individuals and Caucasian or Black individuals. Instead, it generates images featuring two Asian people or stereotypes, erasing the diversity and representation of Asian people.

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Alleged: Meta developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Asian People , Interracial couples and General public.

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Incident ID

686

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Incident Date

2024-04-03

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Daniel Atherton

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Meta’s AI image generator can’t imagine an Asian man with a white woman

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AI-generated Asians were briefly unavailable on Instagram

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theverge.com · 2024

Have you ever seen an Asian person with a white person, whether that’s a mixed-race couple or two friends of different races? Seems pretty common to me — I have lots of white friends!

To Meta’s AI-powered image generator, apparently this is…

theverge.com · 2024

Mia Sato post-incident response

Yesterday, I reported that Meta's AI image generator was making everyone Asian, even when the text prompt specified another race. Today, I briefly had the opposite problem: I was unable to generate any Asian people using the same prompts as…

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