Do Artificial Intelligence Apps Generate Biased Images?

Does Midjourney Perpetuate Stereotypes in How We See Each Other and Ourselves?

Yet, there are still questions to consider and ponder.

Does it remove too much friction from the creative process?

Is there a risk that our art will all look the same?

Does the platform perpetuate biases?

I decided to look at possible biases here.

To set the stage, I have purchased a Basic $10 per month subscription. The application uses Discord as the interface. I can create images with the /imagine prompt.

You can add simple or complex terms to the prompt.

For example, here is what I get from this prompt: /imagine giant cartoon taco floating over city at dusk

With that prompt, it generates four images as a starting point. Every prompt generates four images to start with.

The images are weird and need some modification. Users can modify specific images. Each image corresponds to a number that can be “upscaled” or revised. I’ll refer to the images based on this order.

In image #1, the taco is overflowing with refried beans. In #2, we see a strange clamshell taco. Number 4 inserted the city into the taco. Number 3 is closest to what I envisioned.

But my focus here is to look at biases.

What kind of biases are baked into this platform?

I decided to run a few simple tests by typing in a single word and looking at the results.

The term man gives me this:

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