People with larger bodies

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 10002 Report
Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability

2025-03-23

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.

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 1000
2 Reports
Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability

Marginalized groups

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Incident 1000
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Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability

Women

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Incident 1000
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Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability

people with disabilities

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Incident 1000
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Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability

LGBTQ+ people

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Incident 1000
2 Reports
Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability

People of color

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Incident 1000
2 Reports
Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability

General public

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 1000
2 Reports
Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability

Sora

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 1000
2 Reports
Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability