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Does A.I. Generated Art Unlock the Truth That Humans Filter About How We View Women
Bias, judgment, and stereotypes of women come from the data we’ve fed it.
Type the description prompt “beautiful woman” into an AI text generated program to see what images return. With no clarifiers, images of young, thin, white females are the prominent images returned. If we add race to the prompt, it still returns with images of thin young females.
A.I. generated art is based on machine language models that are programmed to scan millions of images along with associated text. An algorithm spots trends within data points of images and words, eventually forming new images.
Wouldn’t it be logical to conclude that we, as a society, have input the data of this standard of beauty?
We are Feeding the Algorithms
As a writer, I read continuously that artificial intelligence doesn’t produce high-quality stories or articles based on true human experiences. As we become a more and more visual society, does this extend to stories our images and videos tell?
What truths are we teaching the algorithms about how we view and treat others, women in particular?
