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Two leading publicly available AI text-to-image generators create images of surgeons that are 98% white and male, magnifying existing stereotypes, according to a US study. The researchers asked the DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion AI image generators to create images of different surgical specialities and while the DALL-E 2 generator did a reasonable job of reflecting surgeons’ true demographic data, the Midjourney and Stable Diffusion generators created fewer than 2% of images as female, and fewer than 1% as non-White. Adding some geographic info to the prompt did help increase the number of non-white images, but not always the number of female images.
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